Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese - Softcover
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A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time
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Zev Handel is professor of Asian languages and literatures at the University of Washington. He is the author of Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script (Brill, 2019); and associate coeditor of Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2017).
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