Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora

Awards:   Nominated for Harry Levin Prize 2011 Nominated for James Russell Lowell Prize 2010 Nominated for John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History 2011 Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2012
Author:   Jing Tsu
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
ISBN:  

9780674055407


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 January 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora


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Awards

  • Nominated for Harry Levin Prize 2011
  • Nominated for James Russell Lowell Prize 2010
  • Nominated for John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History 2011
  • Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2012

Overview

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between global languages, as well as the internal tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move. In Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, Jing Tsu explores the new global language trade, arguing that it aims at more sophisticated ways of exerting influence besides simply wielding knuckles of power. Through an analysis of the different relationships between language standardization, technologies of writing, and modern Chinese literature around the world from the nineteenth century to the present, this study transforms how we understand the power of language in migration and how that is changing the terms of cultural dominance. Drawing from an unusual array of archival sources, this study cuts across the usual China-West divide and puts its finger on the pulse of a pending supranational world under ""literary governance.""

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Author:   Jing Tsu
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9780674055407


ISBN 10:   0674055403
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora unveils a broad and many-splendored landscape of the modern Chinese language in theory and practice in all its dynamic manifestations. it both delineates and deconstructs the myth of a monolingual national language called Chinese. ...There is no sounder and more all-rounded study of the cultural richness and diversity of Chinese diaspora, which has reached, as this book has shown, nearly global proportions.--Leo Ou-fan Lee, author of otherhuptitle>Shanghai Modern and City Between Worlds


Jing Tsu opens up the field of modern Chinese literary studies by leaving its national moorings behind. She tells exquisite stories and offers illuminating analyses of the many ways the national language of China was open to global access in France, the U.S., Taiwan, and Malaysia. The diversity of sound and script she uncovers in the language leads to a much needed redrawing of the boundaries of modern Chinese literature and an important contribution to Sinophone studies.--Shu-mei Shih, author of Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific


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Jing Tsu is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University

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