{"product_id":"historical-chinese-letter-writing-paperback","title":"Historical Chinese Letter Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Z. Kadar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Z Kadar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars by \u003cbr\u003ethe Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the supporting apparatus of specialised study. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis compendium fills the gap in Chinese studies by providing a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a corpus of Chinese letters, prepared for advanced students of Classical Chinese as well as academics with an interest in historical Chinese epistolary art. The book has a broad and general introduction, systematically constructed vocabulary sections as well as detailed grammatical and philological explanations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt focuses on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, a high point of pre-1911 epistolary activity in Chinese, and will appeal to Chinese scholars and Sinologists at a broad range of academic levels.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDániel Z. Kádár is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.He is winner of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Young Scholar Award 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42118885539975,"sku":"9781441180360","price":95.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/639718d674a599dff463d406a4fd9149.webp?v=1732537133","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/historical-chinese-letter-writing-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}