Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology

By David B. Honey

David Honey offers a history of Sinology, spanning its beginnings in the first efforts of seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries to the growing disciplinary fragmentation of the field in the second half of the twentieth century. No comprehensive history of the field has heretofore been published in a Western language.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940490161
• ISBN13: 9780940490161
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: American Oriental Society
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"