Asia's Orthographic DilemmaUniversity of Hawaii Press, 1. juni 1997 - 368 sider 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. |
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Part 2 Critique of Chinese CharacterBased Writing | 99 |
Part 3 Forces for Change | 205 |
Notes | 301 |
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