E ASIAN 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chinese Emigration, Sinophone, Comparative Religion
26 Feb 2020
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A central figure in the 1920s and 30s field of new culture and literature, but somewhat overlooked today. Not exactly part of the canon (list of works or authors generally considered to be of the highest quality) of modern chinese literature. Student and then teacher at yaching university in beijing (missionary college; with colonial connections, a triangle between china, britain, and india) Trained as a scholar of comparative religion (sanskrit, indian folklore, Christianity) first at columbia, then oxford; spent time in calcutta, began work on a sanskrit-chinese dictionary, translated indian folk tales into chinese. Importance of the geographical imaginary of the nanyang . Growth of chinese population in 19th century puts enormous pressure on land. Many chinese decided to go abroad to: southeast asia and indonesia; latin. Maritime trade and china"s connections to the nanyang. First wave of emigration in the mid-1600s. Defined by the language that they speak (in some form of chinese)
