Codes of Modernity : Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age / Ulug Kuzuoglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuzuoglu, Ulug, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Reform--History--20th century.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Writing--History--20th century.

Chinese language--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms-efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system-from the 1890s to the 1980s.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Alphabetic Labor Time: Scripts, Wires, and Brains in the Late Qing

2. The National Phonetic Alphabet: Scripts and the Birth of Language Politics

3. Basic Chinese: Cognitive Management and Mass Literacy

4. Simplification of Chinese Characters: Mining, Counting, Seeing

5. The New Dunganese Alphabet: Latinization Across Eurasia

6. The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script

7. The Empire of Pinyin

Epilogue: A New Age of Codes

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kuzuoğlu, Uluğ Codes of Modernity

ISBN:

0-231-55791-4

OCLC:

1402814507