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Description of  Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000-1919 (Sinica Leidensia)

This volume presents a new conceptual framework that recognizes that in East Asia the literary and vernacular registers historically interacted and influenced each other as part of a unified, if hybrid, language system that was mastered by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese according to their own unique linguistic resources.