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Název:		The origin and the development of the Chinese writing system
Autor:		Boltz, William G.
Rok vydání:		2003
Identifikátory:		9780940490185

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Anotace:	Originally published in 1994 (hardcover now out of print), this volume has been reprinted in a new paperback format that will make it more attractive and affordable for use in the classroom. The work sketches with extraordinary precision the history of the Chinese writing system from the late Shang (ca. 1200 b.c.) when Chinese characters are first in evidence down to the script's standardization and codification a millennium later in the Ch'in and Han (221 b.c. a.d. 220). Prof. Boltz takes in part a comparative approach to the origin and early structure and development of Chinese writing, suggesting that in its general principles the process was matched pari passu by the way writing first arose in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and among the Mayas (for example, that the Chinese script records the sounds of words, not ideas). The author also examines the question of why the Chinese script never became alphabetic, in spite of hints of such tendencies in the third and second centuries b.c.
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