Böcker av Marten Soderblom Saarela

In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu, Marten Soederblom Saarela shows how-through observation, inference, and reference to ideas on language and writing-intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Choson Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and the uses to which it was put: recording sounds and arranging words.