{"product_id":"the-early-modern-travels-of-manchu-a-script-and-its-study-in-east-asia-and-europe-hardback-9780812252071","title":"The Early Modern Travels of Manchu; A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe (Hardback) 9780812252071","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Early Modern Travels of Manchu\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMårten Söderblom Saarela (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812252071\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 6 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Early Modern Travels of Manchu\u003c\/i\u003e is a prime example of how to successfully conjoin the microhistorical with the global...The narrative plumbs into the social lives of the Manchu script, unfolding the reverberations of individual agencies, while keeping the readers updated of broader temporal and spatial movements. Needless to say, the book will not only inspire historians of global microhistory. Those of cultural mobility and early modernity, and not least, scholars of Manchu studies, will equally be engrossed.\u003c\/p\u003e \" (Journal of Early Modern History) \"A rich study...Saarela sets a new precedent for research about the languages of late imperial China and makes a vital contribution to the international genre of language histories with his biography of the Manchu script and its significance beyond the physical and political domains of the Qing dynasty.\" (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies) \"Ranging widely across China, Korea, Japan, Russia, and western Europe, from the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Modern Travels of Manchu\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates convincingly that a form of global philology connected the early modern world.\" (Peter C. Perdue, Yale University) \"Mårten Söderblom Saarela's book is a major achievement in several fields: Altaic linguistics, Manchu studies, Qing intellectual history, Chinese phonology, and European historical linguistics on Asian languages. Manchu linguistics in particular has never been treated in such a comprehensive manner, and this book lays a solid foundation for further study.\" (Nicola di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Early Modern Travels of Manchu\u003c\/i\u003e, MÅrten SÖderblom 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, Chosŏn Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and explores the uses to which it was put for recording sounds and arranging words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConventions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Cultural History of the Manchu Script\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. To Follow Fuxi or Kubilai Khan? Written Manchu Before 1644\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Beijing Origins of Manchu-Language Pedagogy, 1668-1730\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Phonology and Manchu in Southern China and Japan, c. 1670-1716\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Manchu Words and AlphabeticalOrder in China and Japan, 1683-1820s\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Leibniz's Dream of a Manchu Encyclopedia and Kangxi's \u003ci\u003eMirror\u003c\/i\u003e, 1673-1708\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Manchu Script and Foreign Sounds from the Qing Court to Korea, 1720s-1770s\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Invention of a Manchu Alphabet in Saint Petersburg, 1720s-1730s\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Making of a Manchu Typeface in Paris, 1780s-1810s\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735295586584,"sku":"9780812252071","price":53.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-early-modern-travels-of-manchu-a-script-and-its-study-in-east-asia-and-europe-hardback-9780812252071","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}