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Title: The Six Scripts. Amoy, A.A. Marcal, 1881.
Description: . Pp. (ii), xx, 61. Original cloth, rebacked. Presentation copy to Walter Perceval Yetts. Rare first edition.,A translation of Tai T'ung's "Liu shu ku" or "The History of the Six Writings" is one of the most important classical readings in Chinese philosophy. It was written in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Hopkins provides an introduction to the principles of Chinese character formation and the arrangement of "Liu shu ku", and further explains the relationship between sound, form and meaning. Lionel Charles Hopkins was a British Sinologist who lived in China between 1871 and 1908. Provenance: Walter Perceval Yetts (1878-1957), a British surgeon and sinologist. A reprint of this work was issued at Cambridge in 1954 with a memoir of Hopkins by Yetts. Cordier BS1614.

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, amoi, language, langue, linguistic,

Price: EUR 1400.00 = appr. US$ 1521.59 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 100364

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