Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia

by Peter Francis Kornicki

Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia--not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries of the common era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198797826
• ISBN13: 9780198797821
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"