The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. -- Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research into Chinese linguistics carrie...(展开全部)

The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. -- Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research into Chinese linguistics carrie...(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects an...(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects an...(展开全部)

Cognitive linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics. With 49 chapters wiritten by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers the entire domain of cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts to practical applications. No other comprehensive overview of this burgeoning fie...(展开全部)

Cognitive linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics. With 49 chapters wiritten by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers the entire domain of cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts to practical applications. No other comprehensive overview of this burgeoning fie...(展开全部)

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research. Leading scholars in the major subfields of Persian linguistics examine a range of topics split in...(展开全部)

China's rapid rise to become the world's second largest economy has resulted in an unprecedented impact on the global system and an urgent need to understand the more about the newest economic superpower. The Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Economy is an advanced-level reference guide which surveys the current economic situation in China and its integration into the global ec...(展开全部)

Rather than attempt to offer a definition of modern Chinese literature or provide a comprehensive survey of all that the category might entail, this volume instead uses a series of strategic interventions to illustrate the structural conditions out of which modern Chinese literature has emerged, how it is viewed, and how it may be interpreted. Our goal, in other words, is to sh...(展开全部)

This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that shaped literary production and textual transmission? How do traditional bibliog...(展开全部)