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Direct linkZhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language
