Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script

Author: Zev Handel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 9004352228

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In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This comparative study reveals the universal principles at work in the borrowing of logographic scripts. By analyzing and explaining these principles, Handel advances our understanding of how early writing systems have functioned and spread, providing a new framework that can be applied to the history of scripts beyond East Asia, such as Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform.

ICSST 2021
ICSST 2021

Author: Jarnawi Afgani

Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation

Published: 2022-07-02

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1631903578

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The 1st International Conference on Social, Science, and Technology (ICSST) 2021 was organized by Universitas Islam Syekh Yusuf Tangerang. This conference was held on November 25, 2021, in Tangerang, Indonesia. ICSST provides a platform for lecturers, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to share their insights and perspectives related to the theme "Transformation of Science and Culture during the Pandemic Era and Afterwards". From the theme above, the detailed sub-theme of the conference was formulated to cover the general theme of education, science, social, and technology. The selected paper presented are then documented in this proceeding book entitled The Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social, Science, and Technology, ICSST 2021. This proceeding is expected to provide an insightful perspective and point of view in developing the innovation for overcoming future challenges and obstacles in the field of education, social, science, and technology during the pandemic era and afterward. The success of the conference till the compilation of the articles in this book is definitely the result of the effort of people who contribute and work wholeheartedly. We sincerely appreciate the Steering Committee, Keynote Speakers, Organizing Committee Team, and Participants for their contributions to the conference. Finally, we hope that The Proceeding of 1st ICSST 2021- Universitas Islam Syekh Yusuf Tangerang, Indonesia will be useful for all participants and readers to present the innovative novel in the future. See you all in the next ICSST.

Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis
Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Author: David C. S. Li

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1000579875

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For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wényán 文言) could communicate in writing interactively, despite not speaking each other’s languages. This book outlines the historical background of, and the material conditions that led to, widespread literacy development in premodern and early modern East Asia, where reading and writing for formal purposes was conducted in Literary Sinitic. To exemplify how ‘silent conversation’ or ‘brush-assisted conversation’ is possible through writing-mediated brushed interaction, synchronously face-to-face, this book presents contextualized examples from recurrent contexts involving (i) boat drifters; (ii) traveling literati; and (iii) diplo- matic envoys. Where profound knowledge of classical canons and literary works in Sinitic was a shared attribute of the brush-talkers concerned, their brush-talk would characteristically be intertwined with poetic improvisation. Being the first monograph in English to address this fascinating lingua-cultural practice and cross-border communication phenomenon, which was possibly sui generis in Sinographic East Asia, it will be of interest to students of not only East Asian languages and linguistics, history, international relations, and diplomacy, but also (historical) pragmatics, sociolinguistics, sociology of language, scripts and writing systems, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

Old Japanese
Old Japanese

Author: Marc Hideo Miyake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1134403739

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What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present.

Chinese Dreams
Chinese Dreams

Author: Eric R. J. Hayot

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-12-14

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0472024930

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China’s profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various “Chinas”—as texts—and the nation/culture known simply as “China”—their context—within the work of these writers. Eric Hayot calls into question the very means of representing otherness in the history of the West and ultimately asks if it might be possible to attend to the political meaning of imagining the other, while still enjoying the pleasures and possibilities of such dreaming. The latest edition of this critically acclaimed book includes a new preface by the author. “Lucid and accessible . . . an important contribution to the field of East-West comparative studies, Asian studies, and modernism.” —Comparative Literature Studies “Instead of trying to decipher the indecipherable ‘China’ in Western literary texts and critical discourses, Hayot chose to show us why and how ‘China’ has remained, and will probably always be, an enchanting, ever-elusive dream. His approach is nuanced and refreshing, his analysis rigorous and illuminating.” —Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis

Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics
Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics

Author: Hwa Yol Jung

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-08-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0739185810

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Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics introduces the importance of body politics from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Hwa Yol Jung begins with Giambattista Vico’s anti-Cartesianism as the birth of the discipline. He then explores the homecoming of Greek mousike (performing arts), which included oral poetry, dance, drama, and music; Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogical body politics; the making of body politics in Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray; Marshall McLuhan’s transversal and embodied philosophy of communication; and transversal geophilosophy. This tour de force will be an engaging read for anyone interested in the above thinkers, as well as for students and scholars of comparative philosophy, communication theory, environmental philosophy, political philosophy, or continental philosophy

Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging - The Horse - E-Book
Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging - The Horse - E-Book

Author: Charles S. Farrow

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2005-08-26

Total Pages: 1457

ISBN-13: 0323058221

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Focusing on the horse, this practical text is the second in a series of three to focus on veterinary diagnostic imaging and the new technologies available to help diagnose and pinpoint disease. Like Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging: The Dog and Cat, Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging: The Horse is organized by region with specific structures addressed within each region. Coverage includes background information, normal anatomy, and positioning for specific structures, followed by imaging findings and specific problems such as trauma/fracture, infection and neoplasm. The main focus of this book is radiology, with supplementary information on ultrasound, CT, and MRI. - Includes Radiographic Diagnostic Indicators (RDIs), a versatile set of potential radiographic observations that, when used in combination, can often lead to a radiographic diagnosis. - Features normal radiographs pictured near abnormal images for comparison. - Provides telescopic images that provide both orientation and close-up views to help readers identify key points of the radiograph. - Offers diagnosis at a glance with concise one or two word diagnoses in bold within each legend for quick reference. - Features Emphasis Zones that electronically enhance regions of interest in more complex images.

Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal - E-BOOK
Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal - E-BOOK

Author: Karen M. Tobias

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-12-26

Total Pages: 2775

ISBN-13: 0323263372

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With detailed coverage of surgical procedures, Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal is an authoritative, two-volume reference on the art and science of small animal surgery. Expert contributors discuss surgical principles and procedures for topics ranging from surgical biology and perioperative care, to neurosurgery orthopedic surgery, and soft tissue surgery, always supported by evidence-based research and complete surgical instructions. More procedures are covered with greater detail than in comparable books, and a greater emphasis on pathophysiology shows how it relates to diagnosis, treatment, and overall case management. Experienced Coeditors Karen Tobias and Spencer Johnston provide the definitive reference for veterinary surgery, invaluable preparation for the ACVS and ECVS board examinations. Blend of clinical and basic science information provides the best possible understanding of clinical issues surrounding operative situations. Specific procedures are covered in great detail and are brought to life with full-color drawings and photographs. Highly recognized contributors provide authoritative coverage that is useful for surgical specialists as well as practicing veterinarians who perform surgery or refer cases for surgery. Detailed coverage of small animal surgery provides excellent preparation for the written examination of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, and the European College of Veterinary Surgeons. Comprehensive coverage includes surgical biology, surgical methods and perioperative care, neurosurgery, and orthopedics in Volume I; soft tissue surgery is covered in Volume II. Coverage of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology in chapters on specific organs includes information critical to operative procedures and patient management. In-depth chapters on anesthesia and pain provide indispensable resources for practicing surgeons. Treatment of cancers in small animals is covered in chapters on surgical oncology, tumors of the spine, and musculoskeletal neoplasia. Extensive references to published studies show the factual basis for the material. The companion website includes all of the images in the book for convenient access, plus references linked to original abstracts on PubMed.