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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
06 Jul 2000
Literacy,
Writing and Education
Barend J. ter Haar, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Self-description: "This is a survey-in-progress of the most important and
more recent secondary literature on [Chinese] literacy, orality, writing (functions
and status) and education in past and
present, topically organized."
[A well organized,
extensive, and mostly annotated bibliography - HL]
Site contents: (1) Traditional China (General; Acquiring literacy; The
education of children; The classical period; The examination system and
academies; Printing and its cultural effects; Libraries; Contracts and
other documents for daily usage; Women; Writing and Chinese religious
culture; Vernacular language; Visual dimensions of writing (including
calligraphy)); (2) Late Qing to present day (General; Education; Reading
and writing; Communication and propaganda; Modern printing; Literacy; The
formation of modern Chinese; Numeracy (desideratum); Minorities; Gender
aspects); (3) Orality (General; Primary orality; Secondary orality)
URL http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/literacy.htm
Link and review supplied by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de),
site rating by TMCiolek.
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: V.Useful
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