Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Spoken and Chinese
  • 3. Chinese Characters: Hanz1
  • 4. Meaning Representation in Characters
  • 5. Sound Representation by Characters
  • 6. Logographic Characters vs Phonetic Scripts
  • 7. Text Writing in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese
  • 8. Reforming Spoken and Written Chinese
  • 9. Learning Hanzi, Pinyin, and Putonghua
  • 10. History of Education and Literacy in China
  • 11. Korean Language
  • 12. Hancha: Chinese Characters
  • 13. Han'gul: Alphabetic Syllabary
  • 14. Learning Han'gul and Hancha
  • 15. Why Should Hancha be Kept?
  • 16. History of Education and Literacy in Korea
  • 17. Japanese Language
  • 18. Kanji: Chinese Characters
  • 19. Kana: Japanese Syllabary
  • 20. Romaji: Roman Letters
  • 21. Why Keep Kanji?
  • 22. Learning Kanji and Kana
  • 23. The Japanese Educational System
  • 24. History of Mass Literacy in Japan.