Beyond sinology : Chinese writing and the scripts of culture / Andrea Bachner.

New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, fi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bachner, Andrea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Global Chinese culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Script politics
  • Corpographies: Death and the sinograph
  • National calligraphies
  • Iconographies: Poetics of visuality
  • On (not) writing Chinese
  • Sonographies: Muteness envy
  • Sinographic glossolalia
  • Allographies: Crypto-Chinese
  • Graphic parasites
  • Technographies: Radical design
  • Under e(rasure)
  • Conclusion: Beyond sinology.