186 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book is a classic introduction to Chinese philology — the discipline of textual interpretation — which is grounded in rigorous exegetical and linguistic analysis of ancient texts.
As a discipline devoted to explaining classical texts with a particular focus on semantic interpretation, philology is at the heart of the study of classical Chinese language and literature. This concise... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Content of Chinese Philology 3. Methods of Chinese Philology 4. Word Meaning and Its Evolution 5. Learning and Application of Chinese Philology 6. New Inquiries and Developments in Chinese Philology
Biography
Xu Weihan (1926–2016), former Professor at Shanghai Normal University, was a distinguished linguist whose research focused primarily on Chinese philology.
