Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mạng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts
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Authors/contributors
- Thompson, C. Michele (Author)
- Bretelle-Establet, Florence (Editor)
Title
Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mạng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts
Abstract
For Vietnamese scholars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reading and writing ability in both Chinese and Nôm (an ideographic writing system used to write Vietnamese) was considered an essential tool of scholarship and literary expression.
Book Title
Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Volume
265
Date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Place
Dordrecht
Pages
393-412
ISBN
978-90-481-3676-6
Citation Key
thompsonSinificationLimitationMinh2010
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Short Title
Sinification as Limitation
Language
English
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Citation
Thompson, C. M. (2010). Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mạng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts. In F. Bretelle-Establet (Ed.), Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science (Vol. 265, pp. 393–412). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_13
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