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OverviewWhat 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."" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jing TsuPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.617kg ISBN: 9780674055407ISBN 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 ![]() The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsSound 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 Author InformationJing Tsu is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |