Asia''s Orthographic Dilemma ISBN: 9780824861537 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chinese characters -- East Asia; Chinese language -- Writing;
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.