Table of Contents

1. About the authors; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Part I. Chinese; 5. Spoken Chinese; 6. Chinese characters: Hanzi; 7. Meaning representation in characters; 8. Sound representation by characters; 9. History of education and literacy in China; 10. Reforming spoken and written Chinese; 11. School, and learning to read in Chinese; 12. Summary and conclusions; 13. Part II. Korean; 14. Korean language; 15. Hancha: Chinese characters; 16. Han'g?l: Alphabetic syllabary; 17. Learning and using Han'g?l; 18. Why should Hancha be kept?; 19. History of education and literacy in Korea; 20. Summary and conclusions; 21. Part III. Japanese; 22. Japanese language; 23. Kanji: Chinese characters; 24. Kana: Japanese syllabary; 25. R?maji: Roman letters; 26. Why keep Kanji?; 27. History of mass literacy in Japan; 28. Learning and using Kanji and Kana; 29. The Japanese educational system; 30. Summary and conclusions; 31. Part IV. Common issues; 32. Eye movements and text writing in East Asia; 33. Reading and the brain; 34. East Asian students in international tests; 35. Logographic characters vs phonetic scripts; 36. Afterthoughts; 37. Glossary; 38. Bibliography; 39. Name index; 40. Subject index