Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture /
New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, fi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Global Chinese culture.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=677398 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Script politics
- Corpographies: Death and the sinograph
- National calligraphies
- Iconographies: Poetics of visuality
- On (not) writing Chinese
- Sonographies: Muteness envy
- Sinographic glossolalia
- Allographies: Crypto-Chinese
- Graphic parasites
- Technographies: Radical design
- Under e(rasure)
- Conclusion: Beyond sinology.