Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century

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Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradit

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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 pro