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Author Demattè, Paola, 1962- author.

Title The origins of Chinese writing / Paola Demattè
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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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
Paleography, Chinese.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- China.
Antiquities
Chinese language -- Writing
Excavations (Archaeology)
Paleography, Chinese
SUBJECT China -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023988
Subject China
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197635773
0197635776