{"product_id":"9780826430885","title":"Historical Chinese Letter Writing","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Chinese Letter Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Daniel Z. Kadar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars by \u003cbr\u003ethe Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication.  The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the supporting apparatus of specialised study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis compendium fills the gap in Chinese studies by providing a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a corpus of Chinese letters, prepared for advanced students of Classical Chinese as well as academics with an interest in historical Chinese epistolary art. The book has a broad and general introduction, systematically constructed vocabulary sections as well as detailed grammatical and philological explanations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt focuses on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, a high point of pre-1911 epistolary activity in Chinese, and will appeal to Chinese scholars and Sinologists at a broad range of academic levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780826430885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40597643624654,"sku":"9780826430885","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780826430885","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}