Chinese characters across asia: how the chinese script came to write japanese, korean, and vietnamese
Auteur :
Handel, Zev
Éditeur :
University of Washington Press
ISBN :
9780295753027
Date de publication :
18 mars 2025
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
390 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.