script reform in the Qing era
Posted by Pinyin Info on 28 Apr 2005 at 11:15 am | Tagged as: China, Chinese, Chinese characters, pinyin, romanization, zhuyin
I recently came across W.K. Cheng’s “Enlightenment and Unity: Language Reformism in Late Qing China,” an interesting article from 2001 that covers much of the same ground as Victor Mair’s “Sound and Meaning in the History of Characters: Views of China’s Earliest Script Reformers,” but from a wider, social perspective.
