TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannas,William C.
TI  - The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity
T2  - Encounters with Asia Series
SN  - 9780812202168
AV  - P381.E18 -- H36 2003eb 
U1  - 495 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - East Asia-Languages-Writing
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Japan's Creative Imitations -- 2. Sources of Chinese Innovation -- 3. Korean Technology Transfer -- 4. Asia's Creativity Problem -- 5. The Anatomy of Creativity -- 6. Creativity and the Alphabet -- 7. Asia's Orthographic Tradition -- 8. The Concrete Nature of Asian Writing -- 9. The Impact of Language on Creativity -- 10. Chinese Characters and Creativity -- 11. Creativity and East Asian Society -- 12. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments
N2  - Based on the latest scholarship in cognitive science and linguistics, and the author's intimate experience with East Asian languages, The Writing on the Wall provides a balanced and thoughtful account of one of the most important problems facing modern Asia in the age of globalization
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