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- Title
K pojmu dešifrace starověkého písma v čínské paleografii.
- Authors
Plucar, Jiří
- Abstract
Chinese palaeography has witnessed a huge development only over the last century. If we look at the long-lasting study of Chinese writing within Chinese philology, it is quite a recent discipline from the point of view of the old Chinese literary tradition. The objective of this article is to deal with some basic principles of studying inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells. The study of these inscriptions originated after the revolutionary discovery of oracle bone inscriptions at the end of the Qīng dynasty. This event is currently regarded as the main impulse for the creation of modern palaeography even if the study of archaic bronze inscriptions is much older. Identification of the archaic system of bone and shell inscriptions consists of reading and understanding them, while deciphering them is a systematic process that we can call graphical decipherment. We treat the notion of decipherment as one of the main tasks of Chinese palaeography and eventually also as part of Chinese grammatology. We try to make an introduction to principal properties of the study of this archaic evolutional system and aim at getting closer to a complex philological approach inside Chinese decipherment texts.
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2016, Vol 6, Issue 1, p126
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article