Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing

by David B. Lurie

In the world history of writing, Japan presents an unusually detailed record of transition to literacy. Extant materials attest to the social, cultural, and political contexts and consequences of the advent of writing and reading, from the earliest appearance of imported artifacts with Chinese inscriptions in the first century BCE, through the production of texts within the Japanese archipelago in the fifth century, to the widespread literacies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674060652
• ISBN13: 9780674060654
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"