Codes of Modernity - Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age

Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms-efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system-from the 1890s to the 1980s.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Alphabetic Labor Time: Scripts, Wires, and Brains in the Late Qing
2. The National Phonetic Alphabet: Scripts and the Birth of Language Politics
3. Basic Chinese: Cognitive Management and Mass Literacy
4. Simplification of Chinese Characters: Mining, Counting, Seeing
5. The New Dunganese Alphabet: Latinization Across Eurasia
6. The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script
7. The Empire of Pinyin
Epilogue: A New Age of Codes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu is an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Summary

Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Ulug Kuzuoglu, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2023
• EAN: 9780231209397
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20939-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Chinese, History: specific events and topics, Writing systems, alphabets