What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between global languages, as well as the internal tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move. In "Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora," Jing Tsu explores the new global language trade, arguing that it aims at more sophisticated ways of exerting influence besides simply wielding knuckles of power. Through an analysis of the different relationships between language standardization, technologies of writing, and modern Chinese literature around the world from the nineteenth century to the present, this study transforms how we understand the power of language in migration and how that is changing the terms of cultural dominance. Drawing from an unusual array of archival sources, this study cuts across the usual China-West divide and puts its finger on the pulse of a pending supranational world under 'literary governance.'
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The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty. In “The Birth of a Super-sign”, Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision...
评分The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty. In “The Birth of a Super-sign”, Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision...
评分The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty. In “The Birth of a Super-sign”, Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision...
评分The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty. In “The Birth of a Super-sign”, Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision...
评分The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty. In “The Birth of a Super-sign”, Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision...
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I read the book long time ago. Tsu chose a very interesting perspective--the features of Chinese language--to illustrate the historical and literary formation of Chinese literature, including Sinophone literature. The sentences in the book are well crafted, which indicate author's strength of writing.
评分可能我们也只剩sound and script了
评分简直了。。。。
评分先标个吧。对script的强调是对史的Sinophone模式的一种反击及补充，有一定思考价值，但目前读过的章节来看，亮点大概是对历史材料的梳理吧...
评分"Literary governance" 之概念固然有些意思，但作者選用的個案並非都合適。關於陳季同的章節在重構歷史語境方面頗有可商榷之處，顯得過於“先入為主”。關於此點願與感興趣的諸豆友仔細討論。
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