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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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26248959 |
Table of Contents:
- 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