{"product_id":"9781137512253","title":"Chinese Literature and Culture in the World: The Early Period","description":"\u003ch1\u003eChinese Literature and Culture in the World: The Early Period\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eLuca, Dinu\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period\u003c\/i\u003e offers close readings of language-related contexts in works by classical authors, medieval travelers, and Renaissance cosmographers, as well as various merchants, wanderers, and missionaries, both notable and lesser-known. What emerges is a clear and comprehensive understanding of early European ideas about the Chinese language and writing system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-08-20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137512253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-50291-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 242\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752488792204,"sku":"9781137512253","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137512253.jpg?v=1776696482","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137512253","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}