Long Story of Short Forms : The Evolution of Simplified Chinese Characters

A script reform was carried out in China between 1955 and 1964 by simplifying the shape of a number of characters. Most of the simplified forms adopted had already been in popular use for a long time before this reform, while a few were invented for the occasion. One objective of this dissertation i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bökset, Roar
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, avdelningen för kinesiska 2006
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-993
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