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Asia's Orthographic Dilemma

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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.

Author(s): William C. Hannas
Series: Asian Interactions and Comparisons
Publisher: University of Hawai‘i Press
Year: 1997

Language: English
Pages: 338

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Chinese
2. Japanese
3. Korean
4. Vietnamese
5. Representation
6. Learning and Literacy
7. Reading
8. Appropriateness to East Asian Languages
9. The Chimera of Reform
10. Language, Speech, and Writing
11. Computing with Chinese Characters
12. Chinese Characters and East Asian Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index