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...Zev Handel The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge . By Nathan Vedal . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . ix, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780231200752 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Nathan Vedal's...

...Coraline Jortay [email protected] Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958 . By Zhong Yurou . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . xiii, 279 pp. ISBN: 9780231192637 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 272...

..., 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Christopher P. Atwood The Kitan Language and Script . By Daniel Kane . Handbuch Der Orientalistick. Leiden : Brill , 2009 . xiv , 305 pp. $190.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Ever since the publication of Qidan xiaozi yanjiu...

...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...

...Tzu-hui Celina Hung Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora . By Jing Tsu . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2010 . xii, 306 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 The rapidly growing field of sinophone studies has gained...

...Tatsuo Nishida BOOK REVIEWS 139 Analysis of the Tangut Script BY ERIC GRINSTEAD, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 10, 1972. 376 pp. n.p.l. The author of this monograph is well known for his work in arranging and classifying the Stein Collection of Tangut papers kept...