Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
Contents |
List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of China -- Part ITheories and Philosophies of Writing -- 1. The Nature of Chinese Writing -- 2. Traditions of Inquiry on Language and Writing -- 3. What Is Writing? -- Part IIThe Neolithic Evidence -- 4. Early and Middle Neolithic Signs to the Fourth Millennium BCE -- 5. The Third Millennium BCE: Late Neolithic Sign Systems -- Part IIIThe Bronze Age Evidence -- 6. The Second Millennium BCE: Early and Middle Bronze Age Writing -- 7. Characteristics of Shang Writing -- 8. The Origins of Chinese Writing -- References -- Index |
Summary |
This study investigates in archaeological context the prehistoric origins of Chinese writing in the Late Neolithic (3500-2000 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (2000-1250 BCE). It uses a novel and inclusive theoretical approach to the examination of archaeological evidence, grammatological data, and textual sources with the intent of demonstrating that Chinese writing emerged as a result of a long process that began in various parts of the territory of what is now China in the Late Neolithic and continued during the Early Bronze Age |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed October 9, 2023) |
Subject |
Chinese language -- Writing -- History -- To 1500
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Paleography, Chinese.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- China.
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Antiquities
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Chinese language -- Writing
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Paleography, Chinese
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SUBJECT |
China -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023988
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Subject |
China
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780197635773 |
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0197635776 |
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