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Xue-guanhua : a Ryukyuan source of language education / Daniel Z. Kadar.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kadar, Daniel Z., 1979-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chinese language--Study and teaching--China--History.
Chinese language.
Ryukyuan language.
China--Social life and customs--1644-1912.
China.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (147 p.)
Place of Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The Sino-Japonic manuscript Xue-guanhua/Gaku-kanwa ??? (Learning Mandarin Chinese), compiled for students from the Ryukyu Kingdom, is a noteworthy historical Chinese educational source. It represents historical cross-cultural interactions between Okinawan residents in China and the locals in a wide variety of speech situations, and as such it is one of the few historical cross-cultural sources available on Chinese communication and social behaviour. Along with revealing norms of historical Ch...
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; XUE-GUANHUA; LIST OF TEXTS; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
ISBN:
1-283-14321-6
9786613143211
1-4438-3131-X
OCLC:
827209298

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