14.1249, Media: NYT: Arts: Chinese writing

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-1249. Sun May 4 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.1249, Media: NYT: Arts: Chinese writing

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Date:  Sat, 3 May 2003 18:26:20 +0800
From:  "Karen Chung" <karchung at ntu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Media: NYT: Arts: Chinese writing

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Date:  Sat, 3 May 2003 18:26:20 +0800
From:  "Karen Chung" <karchung at ntu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Media: NYT: Arts: Chinese writing


    The Arts section of the May 3, 2003 online edition of the New York
Times has the following article:

    Writing as a Block for Asians
    By Emily Eakin

    The first two paragraphs:

    Western theories about Chinese writing have often been tainted by
ignorance and prejudice, oscillating between wide-eyed veneration and
smug disdain.

    Though he could not read Chinese, Leibniz, for example, held it in
high repute, dreaming of a universal script ¡X intelligible to
speakers of all languages ¡X modeled on Chinese characters. By
contrast, Hegel dismissed Chinese "hieroglyphics" as primitive. More
recently, Ezra Pound, a famous admirer and translator of Chinese
poetry, helped spread the still-popular misconception that Chinese
characters are simply "ideograms": visual symbols of things and ideas.

    The URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/03ASIA.html?tntemail0


    Karen Steffen Chung
    http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
    http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/



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