"The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective integrates a diverse range of disciplinary ap
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Table of contents :
Part I Linguistic PreliminariesChapter 1 Foundational conceptsChapter 2 What is writing?Chapter 3 What kinds of writing systems are there?Chapter 4 Pinyin tutorialPart II Writing ChineseChapter 5 The Chinese speechChapter 6 Written ChineseChapter 7 The Chinese writing systemChapter 8 Demythifying the Chinese scriptPart III Borrowing the Chinese writing systemChapter 9 Chinese characters in Asia: An overviewChapter 10 Writing KoreanChapter 11 Writing JapaneseChapter 12 Writing VietnamesePart IV Reforming the Chinese scriptChapter 13 Phonetic writing before pinyinChapter 14 PinyinChapter 15 Simplification of Chinese charactersChapter 16 Writing and technology in modern ChinaPart V Identity and gender in writing ChineseChapter 17 Handwriting and personhoodChapter 18 Sexism in the Chinese writing systemChapter 19 Nushu: Women's scriptChapter 20 Script choice in writing JapanesePart VI Chinese Characters in art and literatureChapter 21 Chinese calligraphyChapter 22 A calligraphy workshopChapter 23 Modern calligraphy in ChinaChapter 24 Chinese Characters in Avant-garde artChapter 25 Chinese Characters and Western Modernist poetry