Eastern and Western Languages ​​(New Edition)

💬 Cracking the Kaleidoscope Code of Dialects and Ancient Chinese💬
💬 Weaponizing our dialects💬
💬 Slap all regional discrimination in the face💬
💬 Defend your and my right to hold our heads high and speak our native language💬
💬 Winged by the voices of the ancients💬
💬 Embark on a true time-travel journey💬
💬 Discover the forgotten traditional memories in the long river of history💬
💬 A more authentic China is hidden here💬
👀 Editor's Choice👀
🔈The book has been revised and reprinted, with four new articles replacing it. It aims to better capture the essence of China through language. ◎ How did Mandarin and Pinyin come about? Are they legitimate?
——From Southern Mandarin to Putonghua: How was the national language unified?
——Why is Pinyin not easy to use?
——In the “anti-Japanese drama”, why do the Japanese soldiers always speak so strangely?
◎ How to scientifically refute the map cannon in the face - Is Cantonese really a living fossil of ancient Chinese?
——Why is the Taiwanese accent so “feminine”?
——Was Beijing dialect brought from Northeast China by the Manchus?
◎ Have you ever thought deeply about the mystery of your name?
——Why do Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu and Chen dominate Chinese surnames?
——Why can uncle and cousin represent all the relatives?
— A map of the power distribution of Chinese surnames ◎ How did the ancients actually speak? A realistic time travel video — How to read ancient poetry scientifically?
——How did the twelve zodiac animals come about?
——Why are there more rivers in the south and more rivers in the north?
◎ When the cover is unfolded, it reveals an unexpected tabloid in the language of the Republic of China.
In addition to playing, collecting, and showing off, please don't forget that it also has an important function -
Use ancient Chinese and dialects to fight back against the sense of superiority of map-based tactics and tell them that we are the dialect party!
◎ Breaking news, missing person notice!
Zhao Yuanren was proficient in various local dialects and often "traveled around the country with his ventriloquism". Zheng Zining traced the ancient pronunciations and even "traveled through time and space with his ventriloquism" - can you find out where Zheng Zining traveled to and which dynasty he traveled to?
👀 Celebrity Recommendation👀
Driven by globalization, languages ​​are disappearing at an unprecedented rate. From individuals to nations, and even entire peoples, countless memories and traditions are gradually being forgotten. Language, like biological genes, stores a rich store of historical information, yet it has long been considered a "lost art." This book transforms this so-called "lost art" into accessible and engaging stories, leading us to discover a more authentic world within language.
-- Pan Wuyun, a historical linguist and professor at Shanghai Normal University and Fudan University. Everyone can speak, so everyone likes to discuss language and writing. Unfortunately, even experts rarely offer clear explanations of common sense beyond their own specific areas. Zheng Zining has painstakingly compiled this "expert common sense" from various sources, providing us with reliable topics for discussion.
--Sino-Tibetan scholar Gong Xun, Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Many myths about ancient Chinese and Chinese dialects circulate in China today, such as that Cantonese is closer to ancient Chinese and that Mandarin is actually a product of Manchu and Mongolian, not Chinese. These claims are widely and firmly held. While some have tried to correct these myths, their voices are often weak and ineffective. Zheng Zining's book, written in a relaxed and clear manner, clearly exposes the falsity of these myths (and thus the conclusions based on them), demonstrating how engaging and inspiring the methods and conclusions of genuine linguistic research can be. This is a must-read for anyone interested in languages, whether a beginner or a seasoned expert in multiple languages ​​and dialects.
——Zhang Zhan, Iranian scholar and PhD in Iranian Studies from Harvard University 👀 Introduction👀
Everyday language influences individual thinking, dialects preserve a nation's historical memory, and political language shapes a nation's present consciousness. "Eastern Dialects, Western Languages" is a book that challenges readers' intellectual boundaries, breaking free from individual thought patterns, tracing a nation's lost history, and exploring the logic of national consciousness. Using the contemporary modern Chinese dialects as a framework, Zheng Zining surveys the panorama of Chinese dialects and national cultural heritage, explicating the cultural biases inherent in them. Using the historical evolution of ancient Chinese as a weft, he surveys the historical landscape of Chinese language and tradition, systematically revealing the cultural memories that lie beneath.
Therefore, Zheng Zining uses an easy-to-understand way to transform dialectology and historical linguistics, which have always been regarded as "lost knowledge" and have extremely high barriers to entry and difficulty, into nearly 50 wonderful stories. He integrates almost all the core issues of language and culture such as Mandarin Chinese, pinyin, dialects, ancient Chinese, names, titles, foreign language acquisition, etc., and uses a coherent logic with internal unity to help us find a brand new China in language.

2023-08-01

海峡书局

the new wave

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9787556711260