The origins of Chinese writing / Paola Demattè.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demattè, Paola, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Writing--History--To 1500.

Chinese language.

Paleography, Chinese.

Excavations (Archaeology)--China.

Excavations (Archaeology).

China--Antiquities.

China.

Antiquities.

Chinese language--Writing.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: DEMATTE, PAOLA. ORIGINS OF CHINESE WRITING.

ISBN:

9780197635773

0197635776

OCLC:

1347747374

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