Historical Chinese Letter Writing

<p><i><b>Dániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars by <br>the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for this book.</b><br></i><br>Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the supporting apparatus of specialised study. <p/>This compendium fills the gap in Chinese studies by providing a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a corpus of Chinese letters prepared for advanced students of Classical Chinese as well as academics with an interest in historical Chinese epistolary art. The book has a broad and general introduction systematically constructed vocabulary sections as well as detailed grammatical and philological explanations. <p/>It focuses on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing a high point of pre-1911 epistolary activity in Chinese and will appeal to Chinese scholars and Sinologists at a broad range of academic levels.</p>