Chinese Characters across Asia : how the Chinese script came to write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese /

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts--Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs--are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chin...

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主要作者: Handel, Zev J. (Zev Joseph) (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2025]
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26248959
書本目錄:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Chinese Dynasties and Modern Historical Periods
  • ONE What Are Chinese Characters?
  • TWO Chinese Writing From Antiquity to the Present
  • THREE Classical Chinese A Written Language for East Asia
  • FOUR Sound and Meaning Adapting Characters to Write Other Languages
  • FIVE Linear Adaptation Korean and Japanese
  • SIX Composite Adaptation Vietnamese and Zhuang
  • SEVEN Chinese Characters in the Modern Era Today's Written Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Zhuang
  • EIGHT Universal Writing The Impossible Dream
  • Glossary of Linguistic and Technical Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Character Locator
  • General Index