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Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture (Global Chinese Culture) by Andrea Bachner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national identity. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete “scripting” of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a new critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.

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Author

Andrea Bachner

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231164528

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Rating

4.33 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13