The Discovery of Chinese Literature (Wenxue)

by Laiming Yu

This book traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters "wenxue"(literature) by using the methods of conceptual history and historical and cultural semantics, and by taking the evolution and changes of the concept of the these two characters and their interpretations in the west as a window, and re-examining the contemporary morphology of concept evolution in the historical context of concept generation and development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819942357
• ISBN13: 9789819942350
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 132 Pages