Media: NYT: Arts: Chinese writing
| Submitter: |
Karen Chung
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| Submitter Email: | karchung@ntu.edu.tw |
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The Arts section of the May 3, 2003 online edition of the New York Times has the following article: Writing as a Block for Asians By Emily Eakin The first two paragraphs: Western theories about Chinese writing have often been tainted by ignorance and prejudice, oscillating between wide-eyed veneration and smug disdain. Though he could not read Chinese, Leibniz, for example, held it in high repute, dreaming of a universal script ¡X intelligible to speakers of all languages ¡X modeled on Chinese characters. By contrast, Hegel dismissed Chinese "hieroglyphics" as primitive. More recently, Ezra Pound, a famous admirer and translator of Chinese poetry, helped spread the still-popular misconception that Chinese characters are simply "ideograms": visual symbols of things and ideas. The URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/03ASIA.html?tntemail0 Karen Steffen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ </body> |
| Issue Number: | 14.1249 |
| Date Posted: | May 04, 2003 |
