Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution? (Language Policy)
Book Details
Author(s)
Shouhui Zhao, Richard B. Jr. Baldauf
Publisher
Springer
ISBN / ASIN
1441943064
ISBN-13
9781441943064
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Sales Rank
#7,818,294
Category
Paperback
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Description
This book presents the most comprehensive synthesis and analysis of major developments in reforming programs in modernizing the Chinese writing system. It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.
