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- Asia's Orthographic Dilemma
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
With the advent of computers and the rise of East Asian economies, the complicated character-based writing systems of East Asia have reached a stage of crisis that may be described as truly millennial in scope and implications. In what is perhaps the most wide-ranging critique of the sinographic script ever written, William C. Hannas assesses the usefulness of Chinese character-based writing in East Asia today.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-
- Part 1 History and Structure of Writing in East Asia
- 1. Chinese
- pp. 3-25
- 2. Japanese
- pp. 26-47
- 4. Vietnamese
- pp. 73-100
- Part 2 Critique of Chinese Character-Based Writing
- 5. Representation
- pp. 101-124
- 6. Learning and Literacy
- pp. 125-152
- 7. Reading
- pp. 153-173
- 8. Appropriateness to East Asian Languages
- pp. 174-206
- Part 3 Forces for Change
- 9. The Chimera of Reform
- pp. 207-230
- 10. Language, Speech, and Writing
- pp. 231-257
- 11. Computing with Chinese Characters
- pp. 258-276
- Bibliography
- pp. 317-330
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824861537
Related ISBN(s)
9780824818425
MARC Record
OCLC
47009794
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No