Book notice: Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

[Harold Schiffman]

 Planning Chinese Characters Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?
Series: Language Policy , Vol. 9
Zhao, Shouhui, Baldauf, Richard B. Jr.

2008, Approx. 440 p., Hardcover

ISBN: 978-0-387-48574-4



About this book

The whole world has been watching the vast changes that are currently
occurring in China, but few people are aware that at the same time, to
ensure the writing system serves these changes well, Chinese
characters have also undergone significant reform. While focusing on
current problems, developments and possible solutions, this book also
details the major implementation of language planning programs for the
modernization of the Chinese writing system that have occurred over
the last century. The volume provides a broad and in-depth analysis of
the conflict between one of the world's oldest surviving script
systems and the latest developments in communication technology.
Comprehensive in coverage, interdisciplinary in structure, with
copious references to assist readers in locating a wide range of
resources, this book offers an analytic discussion of character
planning that will prove of great value to language policymakers and
those who are interested in China/East Asian studies and sinology.

Written for: Sociolinguists, language policy makers, and researchers,
East Asian studies scholars and sinologists, language teachers,
language planning workers/professionals, office staff

Keywords: Chinese characters language language planning language policy

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