The Origin And Early Development Of The Chinese Writing System 0940490781, 9780940490789
A new scan of William Boltz's book on the origin of Chinese writing, with pages shown in landscape mode. From the
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English Pages 206 [108] Year 1994
Table of contents :
Title
Contents
Figures, Preface
Preface
Prolegomena
Introduction
Definition of writing
Forerunners of Writing
Shang formation, Pictographic origins
Pictographic origins
Logographs & zodiographs
Graphic multivalence
Determinatives
Multivalence of graphs
Egyptian - Multivalence of graphs
Sumerian - Multivalence of graphs
Paronomasia (Chinese)
Polyphony (Chinese)
Ch'in-Han reformation
Early legend & classical tradition
Wen & Tzu
Liu shu & Shuo wen chieh tzu
Impact of Chinese world-view
Why Chinese script did not evolve into alphabet
Glossary of technical terms - Abbreviated phonophoric
Glossary of technical terms - Early Archaic Chinese
Glossary of technical terms - Protom(ic)
Abbreviations, Bibliography
Bibliography
Index of Chinese characters
Index - Affixation
Index - Chinese script
Index - Liang chu culture
Index - Sumero-Akkadian
Corrigendum
Title
Contents
Figures, Preface
Preface
Prolegomena
Introduction
Definition of writing
Forerunners of Writing
Shang formation, Pictographic origins
Pictographic origins
Logographs & zodiographs
Graphic multivalence
Determinatives
Multivalence of graphs
Egyptian - Multivalence of graphs
Sumerian - Multivalence of graphs
Paronomasia (Chinese)
Polyphony (Chinese)
Ch'in-Han reformation
Early legend & classical tradition
Wen & Tzu
Liu shu & Shuo wen chieh tzu
Impact of Chinese world-view
Why Chinese script did not evolve into alphabet
Glossary of technical terms - Abbreviated phonophoric
Glossary of technical terms - Early Archaic Chinese
Glossary of technical terms - Protom(ic)
Abbreviations, Bibliography
Bibliography
Index of Chinese characters
Index - Affixation
Index - Chinese script
Index - Liang chu culture
Index - Sumero-Akkadian
Corrigendum
