Chapter Five. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION AND TRANSLATION xiii
5. Introduction: The World Made Type 1
6. PART I. The Making of a Modern Media Ecology
7. Chapter One. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire 25
8. Chapter Two. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity 59
9. Chapter Three. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City 91
10. PART II. Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era
11. Chapter Four. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse 127
12. Chapter Five. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism 159
13. Chapter Six. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement 194
14. Conclusion: Ends, Echoes, and Inversions 231
15. NOTES 243
16. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 273
17. INDEX 293