Recommended romanization-related books in English
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- Chao Yuen Ren (Y.R. Chao, Zhao Yuanren)
- Readings in Sayable Chinese sample chapter
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DeFrancis, John
- The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (1984) sample chapter
- Colonialism and Language Policy in Viet Nam (1977)
- Nationalism and Language Reform in China (1950) sample chapter
- Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (1989) sample chapter
- DeFrancis, John (ed.)
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Erbaugh, Mary S. (ed.)
- Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing (2002) sample chapter
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Hannas, Wm. C.
- The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity (2003) sample section
- Asia's Orthographic Dilemma (1997) sample chapter
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Kennedy, George A.
- The Selected Works of George A. Kennedy (1964) sample chapter
- Mair, Victor H. (ed.)
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Mair, Victor H. and Yongquan Liu (eds.)
- Characters and Computers (1991) sample chapter
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Packard, Jerome L.
- The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach (2000) sample chapter
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Unger, J. Marshall
- The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan Is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence (1987) sample chapter
- Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines (1996) sample chapter
- Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning (2003) sample chapter
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Yin Binyong and Mary Felley
- Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography (1990) sample sections
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Zhou Youguang
- The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts (2003) sample sections
