Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: Orientations
1: Sinitic in a global perspective
2: Scripts and writing
3: The oral dimension
4: Material texts: manuscripts, xylography, and typography
5: Book roads and routes
PART II: Reading and translating
6: Reading Sinitic texts in the vernaculars
7: Written vernacular translation
PART III: Chinese texts and the vernaculars
8: The Chinese Buddhist canon and other Buddhist texts
9: Classics, examinations, and Confucianism
10: Primers, medical texts, and other works
Conclusion

About the Author

Peter Francis Kornicki is the son of a Polish WWII Spitfire pilot and grew up in Malta, Aden, and Cyprus. He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1968 to read Classics but transferred to studying Japanese after one year, taking a first class honours in Japanese with Korean in 1972. He received an MSc in Applied Social Studies, a DPhil in Japanese literature, and a DLitt, all from the University of Oxford, after which he taught at the University of Tasmania, Kyoto
University, and the University of Cambridge. He was the President of the European Association of Japanese Studies from 1997 to 2000, a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000, and won the Yamagata Banto
Prize in 2013.