The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora In The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora, twenty-three scholars advance knowledge and understandings of Chinese music studies. Each contribution develops a theoretical model to … Weiterlesen
The Chinese Typewriter: A History How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China’s information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through … Weiterlesen
East Asian Sign Linguistics This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, … Weiterlesen
China Schreibt Anders In einer Zeit, da China immer wichtiger wird, wird es auch immer wichtiger, China zu verstehen. Viel ist da noch zu tun. Die chinesische Schrift ist das komplizierteste System von Formen, welches die Menschheit geschaffen hat, und … Weiterlesen
Footprints traces the history and movement of Jewish books since the inception of print. The history of the book is an important part of humanities scholarship. Especially as more books are digitized, scholars, librarians, collectors, and others have become increasingly … Weiterlesen
Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics Drawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the … Weiterlesen