Perry Link on Chinese "rhythm, metaphor, politics"
Language Log 2013-05-13
Summary:
One reason that I was so interested in San Duanmu's work on Chinese "elastic words" is that I'm in the middle of reading Perry Link's recent book An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics.
From the introduction:
In the fall of 1988, shortly after I arrived in Beijing for a year of work in the Beijing office of [...]