Alphabetarchy: In the Kanjisphere
Lydia H. Liu, 7 April 2022
Towards the end of the 19th century an existential crisis hit China. How could the hanzi script – the system of characters used for millennia across China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam – survive into the modern era, with its global communications networks enabled by those transformative Western inventions, the telegraph and the typewriter? Hanzi script had tens of thousands of...
