Contemporary Chinese Place Names: Names of Administrative Divisions at County and City Level (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783906762678)

Vendor: Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$158.00
$158.00
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Contemporary Chinese Place Names: Names of Administrative Divisions at County and City Level

$158.00

Contemporary Chinese Place Names: Names of Administrative Divisions at County and City Level

$158.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book is dedicated to various aspects of contemporary Chinese place names, their structural and semantic features, as well as naming phenomena present in Chinese toponymy. The structural analysis deals with the division of placename words into generic and specific, and the classification of Chinese generics and specifics according to their morphological structure. The classification of toponyms as derivations from other words is also discussed. This study analyses the semantic content of toponyms, dealing with their meaning as proper names, and classifies them into nine main categories according to their origin. The study is based on a corpus of 1973 names of administrative units at the county and city level of 20 provinces of the People's Republic of China.

Author: Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft,Irena Kaluzynska
ISBN-10: 390676267X
ISBN-13: 9783906762678
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2001
Pages: 331
Format: Hardcover
By Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft
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The Author: Irena Kalużyńska received her M.Sc. in sinology and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Oriental Institute, Warsaw University, in 1978 and in 1998 respectively. She has been with the Oriental Institute, Warsaw University since 1978 and holds the position of assistant professor. Her interests are in Chinese toponymy and poetry. She has published several academic papers, mainly on Chinese toponyms. She has also translated a lot of Chinese literature and books on Chinese culture.

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