Writing and Literacy in Chinese

by Insup Taylor and Martin M. Taylor

Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population. They use a variety of unique and fascinating writing systems: logographic Chinese characters of ancient origin, as well as phonetic systems of syllabaries and alphabets. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155619319X
• ISBN13: 9781556193194
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 427 Pages