Multiple ethnic scripts and literature of China

Author: Wei Zhong
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is a popular science reading in the field of linguistics and literature, aiming to introduce the readers to the situation of ethnic minorities and literature in China, both ancient and modern. China is a multi-ethnic country, and over the long course of history, each ethnic group has formed its own unique culture. They have collectively constitute, enriched, and developed the cultural garden of the Chinese nation, adding brilliant splendor to it. Many ethnic minorities have created and used their own ethnic scripts in different historical periods, producing a vast amount of ethnic minority textual documents. While introducing general knowledge about ethnic minority scripts, the book also incorporates insights from cultural studies, history, religious studies, and ethnology, as a form of knowledge popularization, to help readers better understand the long-standing and richly diverse multi-ethnic culture of our great motherland.