VANDERMEERSCH Leon.
Chinese literature, literature beyond the norm.
Gallimard
Regular price
€12,00
| N° d'inventaire | 25320 |
| Format | 12 x 18.5 |
| Détails | 112 p., a central notebook with 12 color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782072973581 |
A small book for a big subject: the specificity of Chinese literature based on ideographic writing, unlike all Indo-European writings in the Western sphere where the writing is of the alphabetic type.
On our side, therefore, a writing of oral origin; on the other, an oracular writing monopolized at the end of the 12th century BC by specialists in divination.
Léon Vandermeersch develops the consequences and transformations from those which stem from Confucius and Confucianism, then from the conversion to logography when Buddhism took over, until the cultural revolution of May 4, 1929 which abolished the graphic language and universalized writing in spoken language.
On our side, therefore, a writing of oral origin; on the other, an oracular writing monopolized at the end of the 12th century BC by specialists in divination.
Léon Vandermeersch develops the consequences and transformations from those which stem from Confucius and Confucianism, then from the conversion to logography when Buddhism took over, until the cultural revolution of May 4, 1929 which abolished the graphic language and universalized writing in spoken language.
On our side, therefore, a writing of oral origin; on the other, an oracular writing monopolized at the end of the 12th century BC by specialists in divination.
Léon Vandermeersch develops the consequences and transformations from those which stem from Confucius and Confucianism, then from the conversion to logography when Buddhism took over, until the cultural revolution of May 4, 1929 which abolished the graphic language and universalized writing in spoken language.