Download or read book Asia's Orthographic Dilemma written by William C. Hannas and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of computers and the rise of East Asian economies, the complicated character-based writing systems of East Asia have reached a stage of crisis that may be described as truly millennial in scope and implications. In what is perhaps the most wide-ranging critique of the sinographic script ever written, William C. Hannas assesses the usefulness of Chinese character-based writing in East Asia today.