{"id":457,"date":"2006-06-29T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T05:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/prospects-for-chinese-writing-reform-important-new-work\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:21:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:21:53","slug":"prospects-for-chinese-writing-reform-important-new-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/prospects-for-chinese-writing-reform-important-new-work\/","title":{"rendered":"prospects for Chinese writing reform: important new work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John DeFrancis &#8212; whose name should be familiar to most readers of this site, especially for his essential work <a href=\"\/readings\/chinese_language.html\"><em>The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy<\/em><\/a>, which contains his refutation of the <a href=\"\/readings\/texts\/ideographic_myth.html\">ideographic myth<\/a> &#8212; has just published a new article: &#8220;The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This article is the first in the new, electronic-format releases of <a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/\">Sino-Platonic Papers<\/a>. Moreover, these new issues will be available free of charge. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp171_chinese_writing_reform.pdf\">The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform<\/a>  (PDF, approx. 2.4 MB)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/defrancis\/chinese_writing_reform.html\">The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform<\/a> (HTML format, approx. 100 KB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I strongly recommend reading this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John DeFrancis &#8212; whose name should be familiar to most readers of this site, especially for his essential work The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, which contains his refutation of the ideographic myth &#8212; has just published a new article: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/prospects-for-chinese-writing-reform-important-new-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,33,28,55,32,20,19,10,36,128,3,34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-hokkien","category-languages","category-literacy","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-shanghai","category-shanghainese","category-sino-platonic-papers","category-taiwan","category-taiwanese","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}