Incense at the Altar

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The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious Sinological work. In this we are beholden to those European, and latterly, Americ...(展開全部) The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious Sinological work. In this we are beholden to those European, and latterly, American, scholars who, over several generations, painstakingly established the standards for such work. But no comprehensive history of the field has heretofore been published in a Western language. Now Professor Honey offers just such a history of Sinology, spanning its beginnings in the first efforts of seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries to the growing disciplinary fragmentation of the field in the second half of the twentieth century. Honey gives his most thorough attention to the major figures of French, German, Dutch, British, and American Sinology from approximately 1800 to 1980, with extensive discussion of their most significant works and individual techniques. This is a book of special importance for every student of China who cares about the history of the field. Dr. Honey is a Professor of Chinese. A 1980 graduate of UCLA in Oriental Languages, he received his M.A. (1984) and Ph.D degrees (1988) in Classical Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught summers at Middlebury College in Vermont and was a Visiting Professor of Chinese at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan.He has also taught at Nanjing University....(展開全部) Dr. Honey is a Professor of C

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