Literary Sinitic and East Asia

In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the 'vernacular reading' technologies used to read Literary Sinitic through a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern literary cultures in East Asia.

About the author

Kin Bunkyō (Professor emeritus, Kyoto University) is a zainichi Korean scholar who publishes widely in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese on premodern Literary Sinitic literary culture in general, and on Yuan dynasty drama in particular.
Ross King (Professor of Korean, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia) publishes widely on Korean historical linguistics and dialectology, as well as on comparative questions of language and writing in the Sinographic Cosmopolis.

Product details

• Authors: Bunkyo Kin
• Assisted by: Ross King (Editor), Ross King (Translation)
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2021
• EAN: 9789004420397
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42039-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 533 g
• Series: Language, Writing and Literary
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies