Asia's Orthographic Dilemma / / William C. Hannas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Hannas, William C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Part 1: HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF WRITING IN EAST ASIA --; 1. Chinese --; 2. Japanese --; 3. Korean --; 4. Vietnamese --; Part 2: CRITIQUE OF CHINESE CHARACTER–BASED WRITING --; 5. Representation --; 6. Learning and Literacy --; 7. Reading --; 8. Appropriateness to East Asian Languages --; Part 3: FORCES FOR CHANGE --; 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 --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824861537; 9783110649680; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824861537
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William C. Hannas.

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.