Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps vi
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Conventions xvii
7. Chinese Dynasties and Modern Historical Periods xxiii
8. ONE What Are Chinese Characters? 1
9. TWO Chinese Writing From Antiquity to the Present 29
10. THREE Classical Chinese A Written Language for East Asia 66
11. FOUR Sound and Meaning Adapting Characters to Write Other Languages 83
12. FIVE Linear Adaptation Korean and Japanese 97
13. SIX Composite Adaptation Vietnamese and Zhuang 139
14. SEVEN Chinese Characters in the Modern Era Today’s Written Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Zhuang 167
15. EIGHT Universal Writing The Impossible Dream 190
16. Glossary of Linguistic and Technical Terms 201
17. Notes 207
18. Bibliography 227
19. Character Locator 233
20. General Index 239