Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, r...
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Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment...
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The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their...
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Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writin...
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Mad Rulers and Worthy Sons: A Translation and Analysis of the Newly Excavated Zhouxun
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book presents the first study and translation of the ancient text Zhouxun (Instructions of the Zhou). Lost early but mentioned in the history ...
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Conceptualising China Through Translation
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing the development of four key ...
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Notable Book of 2022What does it take to reinvent a language?After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most power...
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Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writin...
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