Publications
Publication details [#52305]
Wu, Hui. 2009. Lost and Found in Transnation: Modern Conceptualization of Chinese Rhetoric. Rhetoric Review 28 (2) : 148–166.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This study discusses how Western rhetoric became associated with stylistic writing devices only in China: in the late 1800s Western rhetoric was learnt via Japanese professors who distanced it from oratory, and early 20th century Japanese theories and Anglo-American speech figures were integrated into existing Chinese literary and literacy traditions.