Chinese·Characters·Chinese Culture

Author: Hu Shuangbao
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book is composed of 52 articles, roughly organized by content. There are many articles related to text (Chinese characters), so they are placed at the beginning. Regarding the reform of writing systems, from the 1950s to the 1970s, the author was a supporter of the phoneticization of Chinese characters. The article "Several Issues Concerning the Phonetic Writing System of Chinese Characters," written in 1979, is a product of the author's reflections on various issues while attempting to design a near-ideal phonetic writing system. As the author's understanding of Chinese characters deepened through teaching them, he gradually realized that Chinese characters and the Chinese language are fundamentally compatible. For a period after 1959, the author attempted to study Peking Opera. He wrote several articles around the topic of Peking Opera, but only one related to language is included in this book. The relationship between language, writing systems, and culture is extremely close. Many articles in this book touch upon Chinese culture to varying degrees. The collation and compilation of ancient texts have always been closely linked to the study of language and writing systems. It falls within the traditional scope of "Xiaoxue" (the study of the fundamentals of Chinese language and characters).