Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese - Handel, Zev (Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington) - Books - University of Washington Press - 9780295753027 - March 18, 2025
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Handel, Zev (Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington)
Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

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A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese.

3 Maps; 23 Illustrations, black and white

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Released March 18, 2025
ISBN13 9780295753027
Publishers University of Washington Press
Pages 276
Dimensions 152 × 228 × 20 mm   ·   426 g
Language English  

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