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Planning Chinese Characters [electronic resource] :Reaction, Evolution or Revolution? / by Shouhui Zhao, Richard B. Baldauf.

by Zhao, Shouhui [author.]; Baldauf, Richard B [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Language Policy: 9Publisher: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.Description: online resource.ISBN: 9780387485768.Subject(s): Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Chinese language | Language and languages | Linguistics | Linguistics (general) | Applied Linguistics | Educational Policy and Politics | Language Education | ChineseDDC classification: 410 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Prologue -- Making Hanzi Accessible -- Reflections on New Perspectives -- New Challenges for a Digital Society -- Standardization as a Solution -- Influencing Outcomes -- Envisioning the Future -- Some Critical Issues.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
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Prologue -- Making Hanzi Accessible -- Reflections on New Perspectives -- New Challenges for a Digital Society -- Standardization as a Solution -- Influencing Outcomes -- Envisioning the Future -- Some Critical Issues.

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.

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