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Mother of writing : the origin and development of a Hmong messianic script
| 責任表示 | William A. Smalley, Chia Koua Vang, Gnia Yee Yang ; Mitt Moua, project translator |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1990 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xii, 221 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm |
| 概要 | In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and g...ven the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people's long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as "Mother (Source) of Writing." An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole. In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writing provides an intriguing cultural account of Shong Lue's life. The book traces the twenty-year-long struggle to disseminate the script after Shong Lue's death, first by handwriting, then by primitive moveable type, an abortive attempt to design a wooden typewriter, and finally by modern wordprocessing. In a moving concluding chapter, Smalley discusses his own complex feelings about his coauthors' story. In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people's long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as "Mother (Source) of Writing." An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole. In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writing provides an intriguing cultural account of Shong Lue's life. The book traces the twenty-year-long struggle to disseminate the script after Shong Lue's death, first by handwriting, then by primitive moveable type, an abortive attempt to design a wooden typewriter, and finally by modern wordprocessing. In a moving concluding chapter, Smalley discusses his own complex feelings about his coauthors' story. 続きを見る |
所蔵情報
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: | 芸工図 3F 書架 | 829.3/Sm1 | 1990 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Bibliography: p. 209-218 Includes index |
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| 著者標目 | *Smalley, William Allen Vang, Chia Koua Yang, Gnia Yee |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Hmong language -- Alphabet
全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Hmong language -- Writing 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Yang, Shong Lue, d. 1971 |
| 分 類 | LCC:PL3311.M5 DC20:495 |
| 書誌ID | 1000970701 |
| ISBN | 0226762866 |
| NCID | BA11053818 |
| 巻冊次 | : ; ISBN:0226762866 : pbk ; ISBN:0226762874 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.16 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.16 |