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Most assume writing systems get simpler. But 3,600 years of Chinese writing show it’s getting increasingly complex

At this very moment, the words you are reading are entering your mind at the speed of thought. Below your awareness, strings of letters are retrieving words and meanings as effortlessly as oxygen ...

This 3,000-year-old language doesn’t use an alphabet and still thrives

Most of the world’s 7,000 languages build words by matching sounds to letters. Yet Chinese takes a different route - one that ...
Phys.org

News on chinese script

The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its ...
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Writing & literacy in early China : studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar / edited by Li Feng and David Prager Branner

Introduction : writing as a phenomenon of literacy / Li Feng and David Prager Branner -- Getting "right" with heaven and the origins of writing in China / David W. Pankenier -- Literacy and the ...
The New York Times

They Wanted to Write the History of Modern China. But How?

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Deirdre Mask KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS The Language Revolution That Made China Modern By Jing Tsu One ...