Fw: H-ASIA: Chinese language reference questions

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:09 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Chinese language reference questions

> H-ASIA
> October 13, 2011
>
> Query on reference questions re: publications on Chinese language and
> culture with regard to specific issues
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> From: J. Jameson <frjameson@yahoo.com>
>
> Dear All:
>
> A colleague has some urgent reference questions and I am trying to
> help post them on the list. Could anyone recommend important
> publications on the following:
>
> a. the concept of time in pre-modern Chinese culture, esp. as it is
> reflected in the pre-modern Chinese language
>
> b. temporalization of the Chinese langauge esp. since the Vernacular
> Movement: the introduction of time-markers to allow the Chinese
> language "catch up" with Western civilization (to make the Chinese
> language more commensurable with tenses and temporal precisions in
> Western languages)
>
> c. characteristics of the Chinese language during (and as a result
> of), the Cultural Revolution (esp. the temporalization of the Chinese
> language as a result of China's will to modernize and catch up with
> the West): The term 'new' became ubiquitous during the Cultural
> Revolution as, for example, the promises of a new society, a new
> China, and the destruction of the old for the new.
>
> d. studies of the political jargons and neologisms that sprang up
> during the Cultural Revolutions: neologisms that carry heavy
> connotations of progress, such as the new China, the new woman of
> China...
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> J. Jameson
> Cultural Studies
> Chinese University of Hong Kong
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