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v Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments xi Part 1 History and Structure of Writing in East Asia 1 1. Chinese 3 2. Japanese 26 3. Korean 48 4. Vietnamese 73 Part 2 Critique of Chinese Character–Based Writing 99 5. Representation 101 6. Learning and Literacy 125 7. Reading 153 8. Appropriateness to East Asian Languages 174 Part 3 Forces for Change 205 9. The Chimera of Reform 207 10. Language, Speech, and Writing 231 11. Computing with Chinese Characters 258 12. Chinese Characters and East Asian Culture 277 Notes 301 Bibliography 317 Index 331 ...

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