Approaching this history from a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives, Beyond Sinology reflects on the Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete “scripting” of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.' - from publisher's website
With notes and bibliography.
Global Chinese Culture
Onsite
English
cultural studies,  critical theory,  language,  calligraphy,  identity,  mediality,  China
2014
282
9780231164528
1
monograph
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
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