Handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics
by Li, Ping, Lee, Chungmin, Nakayama, Mineharu
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"Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contrib…
In A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms, Ivo Spira explores the emergence of Chinese -isms and the key concept zhǔyì ("ism") in the years 1895-1925, covering linguistic, conceptual, and rhetorical aspects of their use in ideological reasoning.
"During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to 'smash the four olds': old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted 'We want to see Chairman Mao, ' they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates…