readings about Chinese characters and romanization
- Appropriateness [of
Chinese Characters] to East Asian Languages. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by
William Hannas.
- Basic Rules of Hanyu Pinyin
Orthography, from The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts, by Zhou
Youguang, translated by Zhang Liqing.
- Breakup of Homophones, from
The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts, by Zhou Youguang, translated by
Zhang Liqing.
- Chinese, from
Visible Speech, by John DeFrancis.
-
Chinese
Characters and the Lexicon. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by William Hannas.
- Chinese Writing. From
The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity, by William Hannas.
-
Confusing Language with Writing, from The Fifth Generation Fallacy, by J. Marshall
Unger.
-
Cultural
Independence, from The Fifth Generation Fallacy, by J. Marshall Unger.
- A Dissertation on the Nature
and Character of the Chinese System of Writing, by Peter S. Du Ponceau.
- Fenollosa, Pound and
the Chinese Character, from The Selected Works of George A. Kennedy.
- The Function of Phonophores
(sound-bearing elements of characters), from The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages
and Scripts, by Zhou Youguang, translated by Zhang Liqing.
- The Homonym
Problem. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by William Hannas.
- The Ideographic
Myth, from The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, by John DeFrancis.
- Implications of the Soviet Dungan
Script for Chinese Language Reform, by Victor Mair.
- Introduction to Ideogram:
Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning, by J. Marshall Unger.
-
Kanji
and Literacy, from The Fifth Generation Fallacy, by J. Marshall Unger.
- The
Modern Japanese Writing System, from Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan:
Reading Between the Lines, by J. Marshall Unger.
- Modifier-Modified
Adjectives [in Hanyu Pinyin], from Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography,
by Yin Binyong.
-
'Monosyllabic'
Chinese. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by William Hannas.
- Morphemes
versus Words. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by William Hannas.
- One State, One People, One
Language, from Nationalism and Language Reform in China, by John DeFrancis.
- Personal Names [in Hanyu
Pinyin], from Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and Orthography, by Yin Binyong.
-
Political
Maneuvering, from The Fifth Generation Fallacy, by J. Marshall Unger.
- The Price of
Tradition, from The Fifth Generation Fallacy, by J. Marshall Unger.
- Rationale: why
investigate Chinese words?. From The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive
Approach, by Jerome L. Packard.
- Scholarly
Neglect, from Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the
Lines, by J. Marshall Unger.
- Sound and Meaning
in the History of Characters: Views of China's Earliest Script Reformers, by Victor Mair. From
Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing, edited by
Mary S. Erbaugh.
-
Transitivity
across Languages. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by William Hannas.
- Transliteration of Foreign
Place Names and Personal Names [in Hanyu Pinyin], from Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation
and Orthography, by Yin Binyong.
-
Unification
of Chinese 'Dialects'. From Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, by William Hannas.
- Use of the Hyphen; Abbreviations
and Short Forms [in Hanyu Pinyin], from Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and
Orthography, by Yin Binyong.
- Verb-Complement
Constructions [in Hanyu Pinyin], from Chinese Romanization: Pronunciation and
Orthography, by Yin Binyong.
- Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard, by
David Moser. From Schriftfestschrift: Essays on Writing and Language in Honor of John DeFrancis
on His Eightieth Birthday (Sino-Platonic Papers No. 27),
edited by Victor Mair.
