[PDF.82wk] An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

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 | #1247742 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2013-02-18 |  2013-01-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.40 x1.30 x6.30l,1.55 | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| This book makes me think about my native language in a fun way|By chenji|I'm a native Chinese speaker, I need to translate documents between Chinese and English in my work from time to time, but I never realized how rhythms, rhymes, and metaphors have played such important roles in Chinese language. I just feel some speech/writing good or not so good unconsciously, taking the| |Perry Link's An Anatomy of Chinese is original, superbly informed by living experience, full of stimulating (and sometimes challenging) insights, nourished by a deep understanding of contemporary Chinese realities. It should become recommended reading f

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey ...

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