Mårten Söderblom Saarela
Biographic Data
| ID | 1442271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mårten Söderblom Saarela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mårten Söderblom |
| FAMILY NAME | Saarela |
| SIGNATURE | SAARELA M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3714-0093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation…
Shooting Characters
Shooting [or 'guessing'] characters" (shèzì 射字) was a game, and later a communication method, based on phonological analysis of Chinese syllables. Over time, it became used in a variety of ways, including as a teaching tool, a cipher, and a phonological writing aid for the less educated. The actual and proposed applications of one phonological game show that Chinese phonology did not just exist in books, but encompassed distinct non-written pract…
The Early Modern Travels of Manchu
In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu , Mårten Söderblom Saarela shows how—through observation, inference, and reference to ideas on language and writing—intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Chosŏn Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and the uses to which it was put: recording sounds and arranging words.
Language Diversity in the Sinophone World
202210 bcch
Joshua Marshman and the Study of Spoken Chinese
Joshua Marshman, English Baptist missionary in India, spent the decade between 1805 and 1814 studying the Chinese language. Marshman’s unique vantage point in India makes him stand out among European Sinologists of his time. Marshman’s familiarity with Indian languages and the local traditions of studying them informed his speculative publications on Chinese. Learning Chinese from a native informant was not enough for him. He thought that only th…
Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System in the Eighteenth Century
Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System in the Eighteenth Century* Mårten Söderblom Saarela The plurilingual Qing government, headed by a Manchu dynastic and military elite, operated in several written languages, and its representatives had to deal with an even greater linguistic diversity whenever they interacted with local populations across the empire. Language, especially the dynastic language of Manchu, was an issue of…
Mandarin over Manchu
The Manchu language studies of the Qing empire emerged in Beijing during the late seventeenth century and spread to Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan during the eighteenth century. The Qing court sponsored the compilation of multilingual thesauri and thereby created an imperial linguistic order with Manchu at the center and vernacular Chinese, or Mandarin, in a subordinate position. Chosŏn and Tokugawa scholars, by contrast, usually placed Mandarin…
Alphabets Avant La Lettre
The reform of the Chinese script in the direction of an alphabet is generally seen as a largely post-imperial development. This paper takes a different view, arguing that numerous scholars in the Ming and Qing periods sought to improve the Chinese writing system by phonographic notations and techniques that are most appropriately called alphabetical. Indian, European, and later Manchu scripts influenced efforts to improve methods of spelling Chin…
Alphabets Avant La Lettre
The reform of the Chinese script in the direction of an alphabet is generally seen as a largely post-imperial development. This paper takes a different view, arguing that numerous scholars in the Ming and Qing periods sought to improve the Chinese writing system by phonographic notations and techniques that are most appropriately called alphabetical. Indian, European, and later Manchu scripts influenced efforts to improve methods of spelling Chin…
The Qing Tradition and the Return of Manchu Lexicography to China (1970s-1990s)
In Qing China (1644-1911), many bilingual dictionaries of Manchu and Chinese were compiled to serve the needs of a multilingual empire. They were largely forgotten in the 20th century. In the 1970s, government initiatives to organize and research the historical heritage meant greater interaction with the Manchu language of the millions of Qing administrative documents still extant. Several projects to compile Manchu-Chinese dictionaries were thus…
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation…
Shooting Characters
Shooting [or 'guessing'] characters" (shèzì 射字) was a game, and later a communication method, based on phonological analysis of Chinese syllables. Over time, it became used in a variety of ways, including as a teaching tool, a cipher, and a phonological writing aid for the less educated. The actual and proposed applications of one phonological game show that Chinese phonology did not just exist in books, but encompassed distinct non-written pract…
Mandarin over Manchu
The Manchu language studies of the Qing empire emerged in Beijing during the late seventeenth century and spread to Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan during the eighteenth century. The Qing court sponsored the compilation of multilingual thesauri and thereby created an imperial linguistic order with Manchu at the center and vernacular Chinese, or Mandarin, in a subordinate position. Chosŏn and Tokugawa scholars, by contrast, usually placed Mandarin…
The Qing Tradition and the Return of Manchu Lexicography to China (1970s-1990s)
In Qing China (1644-1911), many bilingual dictionaries of Manchu and Chinese were compiled to serve the needs of a multilingual empire. They were largely forgotten in the 20th century. In the 1970s, government initiatives to organize and research the historical heritage meant greater interaction with the Manchu language of the millions of Qing administrative documents still extant. Several projects to compile Manchu-Chinese dictionaries were thus…
Alphabets Avant La Lettre
The reform of the Chinese script in the direction of an alphabet is generally seen as a largely post-imperial development. This paper takes a different view, arguing that numerous scholars in the Ming and Qing periods sought to improve the Chinese writing system by phonographic notations and techniques that are most appropriately called alphabetical. Indian, European, and later Manchu scripts influenced efforts to improve methods of spelling Chin…
Alphabets Avant La Lettre
The reform of the Chinese script in the direction of an alphabet is generally seen as a largely post-imperial development. This paper takes a different view, arguing that numerous scholars in the Ming and Qing periods sought to improve the Chinese writing system by phonographic notations and techniques that are most appropriately called alphabetical. Indian, European, and later Manchu scripts influenced efforts to improve methods of spelling Chin…
Mandarin over Manchu
The Manchu language studies of the Qing empire emerged in Beijing during the late seventeenth century and spread to Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan during the eighteenth century. The Qing court sponsored the compilation of multilingual thesauri and thereby created an imperial linguistic order with Manchu at the center and vernacular Chinese, or Mandarin, in a subordinate position. Chosŏn and Tokugawa scholars, by contrast, usually placed Mandarin…
The Early Modern Travels of Manchu
In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu , Mårten Söderblom Saarela shows how—through observation, inference, and reference to ideas on language and writing—intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Chosŏn Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and the uses to which it was put: recording sounds and arranging words.
Language Diversity in the Sinophone World
202210 bcch
Joshua Marshman and the Study of Spoken Chinese
Joshua Marshman, English Baptist missionary in India, spent the decade between 1805 and 1814 studying the Chinese language. Marshman’s unique vantage point in India makes him stand out among European Sinologists of his time. Marshman’s familiarity with Indian languages and the local traditions of studying them informed his speculative publications on Chinese. Learning Chinese from a native informant was not enough for him. He thought that only th…
Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System in the Eighteenth Century
Linguistic Compartmentalization and the Palace Memorial System in the Eighteenth Century* Mårten Söderblom Saarela The plurilingual Qing government, headed by a Manchu dynastic and military elite, operated in several written languages, and its representatives had to deal with an even greater linguistic diversity whenever they interacted with local populations across the empire. Language, especially the dynastic language of Manchu, was an issue of…
Shooting Characters
Shooting [or 'guessing'] characters" (shèzì 射字) was a game, and later a communication method, based on phonological analysis of Chinese syllables. Over time, it became used in a variety of ways, including as a teaching tool, a cipher, and a phonological writing aid for the less educated. The actual and proposed applications of one phonological game show that Chinese phonology did not just exist in books, but encompassed distinct non-written pract…
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation…
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