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For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In
Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture and lasting implications.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Note on Romanization
Introduction: Voiceless China and Its Phonocentric Turn
Part I: Provenance
1. The Beginning and the End of Alphabetic Universalism
Part II: Transmutations
2. Phonocentric Antinomies
3. Can Subaltern Workers Write?
4. Reinventing Children
Part III: Containment
5. Toward a Chinese Grammatology
Epilogue: The Last Custodian
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Yurou Zhong is assistant professor of East Asian studies at the University of Toronto.
Riassunto
For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture and lasting implications.
Testo aggiuntivo
Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale (1916) and Derrida's De la grammatologie (1967) are two milestones that have far-reaching implications for 20th-century scholarship in the humanities. Under the influence of these two works, phonetics and logocentrism gradually became one of the concerns for scholars of humanities. However, how do we deal with the perceived voicelessness in nonphonetic scripts? How do we rediscover and understand the rich and tense historical processes that sought to reform and even eliminate the Chinese script for the past century? These substantial questions form the backbone of Chinese Grammatology. It builds on theoretical exploration, historical research, and case studies covering classical philology, the influence of romanization, the latinization movement in modern China, and more. Solid research, broad vision, and sharp observations enliven the whole book.
