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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu - A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (Hardcover)
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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu - A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Encounters with Asia
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A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early
modern world Manchu was a language first written down as part of
the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early
seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and
for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of
state in one of the early modern world's great powers. Its
prominence and novelty attracted the interest of not only Chinese
literati but also foreign scholars. Yet scholars in Europe and
Japan, and occasionally even within China itself, were compelled to
study the language without access to a native speaker. Jesuit
missionaries in Beijing sent Chinese books on Manchu to Europe,
where scholars struggled to represent it in an alphabet compatible
with Western pedagogy and printing technology. In southern China,
meanwhile, an isolated phonologist with access to Jesuit books
relied on expositions of the Roman alphabet to make sense of the
Manchu script. When Chinese textbooks and dictionaries of Manchu
eventually reached Japan, scholars there used their knowledge of
Dutch to understand Manchu. In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu,
Marten Soederblom Saarela focuses on outsiders both within and
beyond the Qing empire who had little interaction with Manchu
speakers but took an interest in the strange, new language of a
rising world power. He shows how-through observation, inference,
and reference to received ideas on language and
writing-intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Choson
Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and explores
the uses to which it was put for recording sounds and arranging
words.
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