Digraphia: a strategy for Chinese characters for the twenty-first century

• Autores: Su Peicheng
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 150, 2001, págs. 109-124
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper ®rst outlines the evolution of phonetically based annotation systems for Chinese as well as the history of policies of monographia and digraphia in China since 1892. Section 2 outlines the nature of Chinese characters, while section 3 presents a history and assessment of the last one hundred years of debate on the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese characters. Section 4 describes the history and evolution of the now standard Hanyu Pinyin Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, especially in the light of recent technological developments. Section 5 presents our conclusion that some form of digraphia between Chinese characters and Hanyu Pinyin romanization is ``imperative'' for China's success in the twenty-®rst century.