| Description |
xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Literary governance -- Chinese lessons -- Lin Yutang's typewriter (Anglophone) -- Bilingual loyalty, betrayal, and accountability (Anglophone) -- Chen Jitong's "World Literature" and the Republicanism of letters (Francophone) -- The missing script of Taiwan (Taiwanese) -- Look-alikes, bad relations, and spectral genealogies (Chinese Malaysian) -- The elephant in the room (Chinese Malaysian) |
| Summary |
In Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora Jing Tsu explores the new global language trade, arguing that it aims at more sophisticated ways of exerting influence besides simply wielding knuckles of power. Through an analysis of the different relationships between language standardization, technologies of writing, and modern Chinese literature around the world from the nineteenth century to the present, this study transforms how we understand the power of language in migration and how that is changing the terms of cultural dominance. Drawing from an unusual array of archival sources, this study cuts across the usual China-West divide and considers a supranational world under "literary governance." --Book Jacket |
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Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between languages, as well as the internal tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move. -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese diaspora in literature.
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Chinese in literature.
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Chinese literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204
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| LC no. |
2010018764 |
| ISBN |
0674055403 (hbk.) |
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9780674055407 (hbk.) |
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