Realms of literacy : early Japan and the history of writing /
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| Author / Creator: | Lurie, David Barnett. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011. |
| Description: | xxiii, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 335 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 335. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8542926 |
Table of Contents:
- Maps, Tables, and Figures
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I. Literacy and Power
- 1. Shards of Writing?: Early Fragments and the Nature of Literacy
- The Hirota Shell Artifact
- Writing Lessons: The Politics of Plural Literacies
- Great Discovery or Just a Smudge?
- Coins and Contexts
- Mirroring Text
- 2. Kings Who Did Not Read: Scribes and the Projection of Power from the First to the Sixth Century CE
- Peripheral Diplomacy and the Inscription of the 'Chinese World Order'
- Writing Between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago
- Scribes in Service to the Yamato Kings (Fifth-Sixth Centuries CE)
- Court Scribes in Early Japanese Histories
- 3. A World Dense with Writing: Expanding Literacies in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries
- The Emergence of New Literacies in the Mid-Seventh Century
- Buddhism and Writing
- Context, Material, and the Breadth of Early Japanese Writing
- Part II. Writing and Language
- 4. Kundoku: Reading, Writing, and Translation in a Single Script
- Language and Writing in Chinese and Japanese
- Back to the Beginning? The Seventh and Eighth Centuries
- Early Korea and the Spread of an 'East Asian' Script
- A Variety More Stylistic than Linguistic
- 5. Governing in Prose: Written Style in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki
- Parallel Inscriptions in the Main Hall of Hōryūji
- A Vernacular Voice for Ancient Matters: The Kojiki
- Localizing a Universal Rhetoric: The Nihon Shoki
- Written Style and Authority in the Eighth Century
- 6. The Poetry of Writing: The Man'yōshū and Its Contexts
- Flowers of Naniwa: Spelling Verse Syllable by Syllable
- The Diversity of Writing in the Man'yōshū
- Context, Choice, and Stylistic Difference
- 7. Japan and the History of Writing
- Writing and Language in Japanese Culture
- Overcoming the Bilingual Fallacy
- The Extended Nature of the 'Chinese' Script
- The Latin of East Asia?
- Myths of Efficiency and the Diversity of Literacies
- Envisioning a World History of Writing
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index