...Sam H. Bass The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe . By Mårten Söderblom Saarela . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2020 . x, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780812252071 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...

...Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Abstract This article rethinks the history of Chinese script reforms and proposes a new genealogy for the Chinese Latin Alphabet (CLA), invented in 1931 by Chinese and Russian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union. Situating script reforms within a global information age that emerged...

... to develop a set of analytic tools to sustain the momentum of sinophone studies. With its admirable erudition and scope, Sound and Script should be widely read by scholars and students interested in Chinese and comparative literature, cultural studies, linguistics, and translation studies. 4...

...L. Carrington Goodrich A post-script to the review of Eloise Talcott Hibbert's Jesuit adventure in China … ., pp. 185 –6 above. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 BOOK REVIEWS 205 which operate for and against its coming. There is, for example, no appraisal...

... in the entries in chapter 3. Kane begins with a clear introduction to the Kitan historical context, the history of research on the topic, the process and methodology of decipherment, and the conventions of transcription. Chapter 2 lists of all of the known Kitan small script characters and what is known...

...Tatsuo Nishida Analysis of the Tangut Script . By Eric Grinsted , Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 10 , 1972 . 376 pp. n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 139 Analysis of the Tangut Script BY ERIC GRINSTEAD...

...David Strecker Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script . By William A. Smalley , Chia Koua Vang , and Gnia Yee Yang . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1990 . xii, 221 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991...

..., such as constitutional revision, have not. In general, the period since the 1950s has seen a pattern of conservative social change backed by the Liberal Democratic Party. An area that illustrates this trend is that of language policy, specifically the policy toward script. The partial revision of the immediate postwar...

...Mark C. Elliott New Light on Manchu Historiography and Literature: The Discovery of Three Documents in Old Manchu Script . By Tatiana A. Pang and Giovanni Stary . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag , 1998 . 340 pp. DM 138 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... conclusions in my study. JUSTUS M. VAN DER KROEF Michigan State College A PRACTICAL ALPHABETIC SCRIPT FOR CHINESE In ancient China, writing was largely phonetic. After the reforms made by Li Sz [Li Ssu] and Cheng Mao in the third century, B.C., nine-tenths of the characters were made up with two parts, one...

...Mikiso Hane Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan . By J. Marshall Unger . New York : Oxford University Press , 1996 . 176 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 566 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES their babies. We are left with a strong...

... that is “widely accepted to the present as a straightforward narrative of the history of linguistic and scholarly innovation in China” (206). The book is divided into major sections titled (1) “Sound and Script”; (2) “Singing and Speaking, Reading and Writing”; and (3) “Philology: The Making and Remaking...