This book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial
corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of
Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of
Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes
extra-linguistic, trans-historical, universal 'ideas' which are an
outgrowth of Platonism and thus unique to European history.
Classical Chinese discourse assumes that language (and writing) is
an arbitrary artifact invented by sages for specific reasons at
specific times in history. Language by this definition is an
ever-changing technology amenable to historical manipulation;
language is not the House of Being, but rather a historically
embedded social construct that encodes quotidian human intentions
and nothing more. These are incommensurate epistemes, each with its
own cultural milieu and historical context. By comparing these two
traditions, this study historicizes and decolonializes popular
notions about Chinese characters, exposing the Eurocentrism
inherent in all theories of ideography. Ideography and Chinese
Language Theory will be of significant interest to historians,
sinologists, theorists, and scholars in other branches of the
humanities.
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