Description: Chinese Grammatology : Script Revolution and Chinese Literary Modernity, 1916–1958, Hardcover by Zhong, Yurou, ISBN 0231192622, ISBN-13 9780231192620, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "In premodern East Asia, Chinese dominated everything from poetry to international trade, but by the early twentieth century, the ancient Chinese script began to be targeted as a roadblock to literacy, science, and democracy. Its abolition and replacement by the Latin alphabet came to be seen as a necessary condition of modernity. In China, both the Kuomintang Nationalist government in the 1920s and the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s had active movements for replacing Chinese script with Latin characters. Nonetheless, when script reform was taken up by the party in 1958, simplification, not latinization, was instituted, and today Chinese script is alive and well. Yurou Zhong argues that just as broader international currents swept the latinization movement in, a postwar anti-imperial critique of Western ethnocentrism was responsible for the retention of the script. She also relates these political movements to the birth of modern Chinese literature and to similar movements in other--mostly socialist--countries at the time"--
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Book Title: Chinese Grammatology : Script Revolution and Chinese Literary Mod
Item Length: 9.3in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6.3in
Author: Yurou Zhong
Publication Name: Chinese Grammatology : Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
