Here are some readings we recommend to help you prepare for and engage with the focus theme of the autumn school

• Bréard, Andrea. “(Philo-)Logica-Mathematica – Giovanni Vacca's (1872-1953) attempts of translation between mathematical formulas and Chinese text via simplified Latin." Geschichte der Germanistik 55/56 (2019): 16 - 33.

• Chen, Janet Y. The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960. Columbia University Press. 2023

• Clements, Rebekah. “Brush Talk as the “Lingua Franca” of Diplomacy in Japanese-Korean Encounters, c. 1600–1868.” The Historical Journal 62-2 (2019): 289–309.

• Denecke, Wiebke. “Worlds Without Translation: Premodern East Asia and the Power of Character Scripts.” In S. Bermann and C. Porter, eds., A Companion to Translation Studies, 204–16. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

• Handel, Zev. Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaption of the Chinese Script. Brill, 2019.

• Kuzuoğlu, Uluğ. Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age. Columbia University Press, 2023.

• Li, David C. S. et al. “Silent Conversation through Brushtalk (筆談): The Use of Sinitic as a Scripta Franca in Early Modern East Asia.” Global Chinese 6-1 (2020): 1–24.

• Mullaney, Thomas S. The Chinese Typewriter: A History. MIT Press, 2017.

• Saarela, Mårten Söderblom. The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and its Study in East Asia and Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

• Tam, Gina Anne. Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960. Cambridge University Press, 2020.