Download or read book Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen 文 written by Ross King and published by Brill. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volumes explore Sheldon Pollock's exciting ideas about historical processes of vernacularization and interactions between cosmopolitan and vernacular languages in the history of premodern literary cultures, with a focus on the Sinographic Cosmopolis, comprising China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.