14.1249, Media: NYT: Arts: Chinese writing
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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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