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Im New Books Net­work Pod­cast in der Rei­he „Asian Review of Books“ sprach Zev Han­del am 3.7.2025 über seine Forschung rund um die chi­ne­sis­che Schrift: > For cen­turies, scribes across East Asia used Chi­nese char­ac­ters to write things down–even in lan­guages based on very dif­fer­ent foun­da­tions than Chi­nese. In south­ern Chi­na, Japan, Korea and Viet­nam, peo­ple used Chi­nese to read and write–and nev­er thought it was odd. It was, after all, how things were done. > > Even today, Can­tonese speak­ers use Chi­nese char­ac­ters to reflect their dialect with no issues, while _kan­ji_ remains a key part of Japan­ese writ­ing. Even in South Korea, the _Chosun Ilbo_ news­pa­per uses Chi­nese char­ac­ters for its title, even as most of Korea has turned to hangul. > > Zev Han­del talks about how clas­si­cal Chi­nese came to dom­i­nate East Asia in his book _Chi­nese Char­ac­ters across Asia: How the Chi­nese Script Came to Write Japan­ese, Kore­an, and Viet­namese _(Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton Press, 2025). How do Chi­nese char­ac­ters even work? How did Chi­nese script spread across the region? And what was it like to read and write in a lan­guage that you couldn’t even speak? > > Zev Han­del is pro­fes­sor of Chi­nese lin­guis­tics in the Depart­ment of Asian Lan­guages and Lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton. He is author of Sinog­ra­phy: The Bor­row­ing and Adap­ta­tion of the Chi­nese Script and asso­ciate coed­i­tor of Ency­clo­pe­dia of Chi­nese Lan­guage and Linguistics. Das Buch ist als eBook bei uns im Bestand.