Ebook The Family of Chinese Character
Chinese characters were originally the script for writing the speech of the Han people of China. Spreading to other peoples and countries, it became a family of character-type scripts, writing different speech forms of different peoples.
At present I have at hand the materials of twenty members of the family; perhaps some others might be discovered later. By studying these scripts as a correlated and integrated system, we may understand more deeply the characteristics of Chinese characters -and their influence on the development of oriental culture. Studying these scripts individually and separately is
quite different from studying them collectively as a whole.
During the past two millenniums, this family has undergone four stages of historical development: (1) stage of transplantation, (2) stage of naturalization, (3) stage of imitation and (4) stage of creation.
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