TY  - BOOK
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AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution? 
T2  - Language Policy,
SN  - 9780387485768
AV  - P1-1091 
U1  - 410 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Applied linguistics
KW  - Chinese language
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Linguistics (general)
KW  - Applied Linguistics
KW  - Educational Policy and Politics
KW  - Language Education
KW  - Chinese
N1  - Prologue -- Making Hanzi Accessible -- Reflections on New Perspectives -- New Challenges for a Digital Society -- Standardization as a Solution -- Influencing Outcomes -- Envisioning the Future -- Some Critical Issues; ZDB-2-SHU
N2  - The whole world has been watching the vast changes that are currently occurring in China, but few people are aware that at the same time, to ensure the writing system serves these changes well, Chinese characters have also undergone significant reform. While focusing on current problems, developments and possible solutions, this book also details the major implementation of language planning programs for the modernization of the Chinese writing system that have occurred over the last century. The volume provides a broad and in-depth analysis of the conflict between one of the worlds oldest surviving script systems and the latest developments in communication technology. Comprehensive in coverage, interdisciplinary in structure, with copious references to assist readers in locating a wide range of resources, this book offers an analytic discussion of character planning that will prove of great value to language policymakers and those who are interested in China/East Asian studies and sinology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48576-8
ER  -