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Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)

New Books in East Asian Studies

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Modernization of Chinese Writing

This chapter explores the efforts to reform Chinese writing through simplification and quantification, highlighting its historical significance in education and state policy. It also examines the creation of the Xinwenzi Latin alphabet and its transnational influences, particularly focusing on the collaboration between Chinese communists and Russian linguists.

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