Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919

Abstract

1. Introduction: Languages in East and South Asia, 1000-1919 - Benjamin A. Elman 2. The Vernacularization of Buddhist Texts: From the Tangut Empire to Japan - Peter Kornicki 3. The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge, and the Politics of Language in Early Choson Korea - Wang Sixiang 4. Rebooting the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam - John D. Phan 5. Mediating the Literary Classics: Commentary and Translation in Premodern Japan - Haruo Shirane 6. The Languages of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan - Daniel Trambaiolo 7. The Manchu Script and Information Management: Some Aspects of Qing China's Great Encounter with Alphabetic Literacy - Marten Soederblom Saarela 8. Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations - Benjamin A. Elman 9. Competing Languages: Sound in the Orthographic Reforms of Early Meiji Japan - Atsuko Ueda 10. Writing and Speech: Rethinking the Issue of Vernaculars in Early Modern China - Shang Wei Contributors Index