How Long to Read Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia

How Long Does it Take to Read Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia by Peter Francis Kornicki

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries of the common era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia, through the centuries when vernacular scripts evolved, right up to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts. Through an examination of oral approaches to Chinese texts, it shows how highly-valued Chinese texts came to be read through the prism of the vernaculars and ultimately to be translated. This long process has some parallels with vernacularization in Europe, but a crucial difference is that literary Chinese was, unlike Latin, not a spoken language. As a consequence, people who spoke different East Asian vernaculars had no means of communicating in speech, but they could communicate silently by means of written conversation in literary Chinese; a further consequence is that within each society Chinese texts assumed vernacular garb: in classes and lectures, Chinese texts were read and declaimed in the vernaculars. What happened in the nineteenth century and why are there still so many different scripts in East Asia? How and why were Chinese texts dethroned, and what replaced them? These are some of the questions addressed in Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia.

How long is Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia?

Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia by Peter Francis Kornicki is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.

This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia aloud.

What Reading Level is Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia?

Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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