Nathan Vedal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nathan Vedal is involved.
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2013 “Preferring Omission over Falsity”: The politics of compilation in the Kangxi Classic of Characters 康熙字典 Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2, pp. 3–37 | Article
Neglected in the current scholarship on Qing dynasty court compilations, the dictionary commissioned by the Kangxi emperor in 1710 is an important source for understanding the nature of court-commissioned reference works in the early Qing. The Kangxi Classic of Characters, although typically… read more
