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Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000 1919

Benjamin A. Elman

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The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock’s findings for South Asia, we examine alternative frameworks for understanding East Asian languages between 1000 and 1919. Using new sources, making new connections, and re-examining old assumptions, we have asked whether and why East and SE Asian languages should be analysed in light of a Eurocentric dichotomy of Latin versus vernaculars. This discussion has encouraged us to explore whether European modernity is an appropriate standard at all for East Asia. Individually and collectively, we have sought to establish linkages between societies without making a priori assumptions about the countries’ internal structures or the genealogy of their connections.

Contributors include: Benjamin Elman; Peter Kornicki; John Phan; Wei Shang; Haruo Shirane; Mårten Söderblom Saarela; Daniel Trambaiolo; Atsuko Ueda; Sixiang Wang.

Language: English

Pages: 324

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Brill

Release: August 21, 2014

ISBN: 9004277595

ISBN 13: 9789004277595

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Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000 1919

Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000 1919

Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000 1919

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