Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology

by David B. Honey

The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious Sinological work. In this we are beholden to those European, and latterly, American, scholars who, over several generations, painstakingly established the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940490161
• ISBN13: 9780940490161
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: American Oriental Society
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"