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Writing and Literacy in Early China examines a topic of international importance: the emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society.
Among the fundamental changes in the conditions for the study of early Chinese textual culture in the course of the twentieth century, the discovery of vast amounts of Warring States and early imperial manuscripts in the past three decades has been the most consequential.
To understand the processes that led to primary developments of writing, The Origins of Chinese Writing draws from the latest research on the early writing systems of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other forms of protowriting.
The chapter presents the early Chinese state as a highly organized bureaucracy relying heavily on writing in all aspects of administration. In the third section, scribal training is discussed. Most attention is given to the best-documented examples, Mesopotamia and to a lesser extent, Egypt.
A brief overview of the Chinese writing system, including native views on the origin and early history of the script; comparison with archaeological evidence; orthographic structure of Chinese characters; literacy; and the spread of the script beyond the Chinese state(s).
13 lip 2020 · Provides a brief description of the how Chinese writing developed and illustrations of the 12 basic strokes Includes bibliographical references (page 23) and index Ancient China -- Early writing -- Oracle bones -- Chinese writing advances -- Chinese writing today -- Glossary -- Resources -- Index/word count -- Note
The oldest mention to the origins of writing in China goes back to the 3rd century BC. The great philosopher Xu2nzi3 荀子 (335-238) and his disciple Ha2n Fe1i 韓非 (280-233) present Ca1ng Jie2 倉頡 as someone specialised in writing and eventually as the inventor of writing. The Heroic invention of writing progressively developed, and
