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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe

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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe - Saarela, Mårten Söderblom
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In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu , M???rten S???derblom Saarela shows how--through observation, inference, and reference to ideas on language and writing--intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Chos n Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and the uses to which it was put: recording sounds and arranging words.

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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe 2020, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812252071

Hardcover