Asia''s Orthographic Dilemma
ISBN: 9780824861537
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Hawai''i Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Chinese language; Chinese characters;

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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