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Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: Interactional Cross-border Communication Using Literary Sinitic in Early Modern East Asia by David C. S. Li, Reijiro Aoyama
English | April 29, 2022 | ISBN: 0367499401 | 318 pages | PDF | 18 MB
For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today's China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wényán 文言) could communicate in writing interactively, despite not speaking each other's languages.