A Study of Qing Cao Jiang"s Travels with Korean Literati in the Early 19th Century: Centering on the Qing Dynasty"s Famous Writers" Ephemera

In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.

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Multiple Views of the Opium Wars in the Joseon Dynasty: A Study on the Joseon Government’s, Intellectuals’, and Commoners’ Perceptions of the Qing Dynasty in the mid- to late-19th century

The Study of Korean History of Thoughts ◽

10.31309/skht.56.201708.4 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

pp. 101-144

Author(s):

Bao Yun Zhang

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Qing Dynasty ◽

Multiple Views ◽

Late 19Th Century ◽

The Qing Dynasty ◽

Joseon Dynasty ◽

Opium Wars

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The Kitajskaja grammatika (1835) and Bičurin’s ideas on the “mechanism” of Chinese between European and Chinese grammatical traditions

Histoire Épistémologie Langage ◽

10.1051/hel/2019002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 57-77

Author(s):

Anna Di Toro

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Chinese Language ◽

Early 19Th Century

The main contribution of Bičurin in the field of Chinese language, the Kitajskaja grammatika (1835), is still quite understudied, even though it represents the first grammar of Chinese written in Russian. Through a rapid overview of some of the early grammars of Chinese written by European authors and the analysis of some sections of the book, in which the Russian sinologist expounds the mechanism of Chinese, the paper dwells on the original ideas on this language developed by the Russian sinologist, inspired both by European and Chinese grammatical traditions. A particular attention is devoted to Bičurin’s concept of “mental modification”, related to the linguistic ideas discussed in Europe in the early 19th century.

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