Author: David Philip Lindsley
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Compendium of Tachygraphy: Or, Lindsley's Phonetic Shorthand ...
Author: David Philip Lindsley
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Codes of Modernity
Author: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231557914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. China needed a new script to survive in the modern world. Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu argues that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age. Faced with new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial, educational, and bureaucratic pressures for information management, reformers engineered scripts as tools to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures. Kuzuoğlu considers dozens of proposed scripts, including phonetic alphabets, syllabaries, character simplification schemes, latinization, and pinyin. Situating them in a transnational framework, he stretches the geographical boundaries of Chinese script reforms to include American behavioral psychologists, Soviet revolutionaries, and Central Asian typographers, who were all devising new scripts in pursuit of informational efficiency. Codes of Modernity brings these experiments together to offer new ways to understand scripts and rethink the shared experiences of a global information age.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231557914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. China needed a new script to survive in the modern world. Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu argues that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age. Faced with new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial, educational, and bureaucratic pressures for information management, reformers engineered scripts as tools to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures. Kuzuoğlu considers dozens of proposed scripts, including phonetic alphabets, syllabaries, character simplification schemes, latinization, and pinyin. Situating them in a transnational framework, he stretches the geographical boundaries of Chinese script reforms to include American behavioral psychologists, Soviet revolutionaries, and Central Asian typographers, who were all devising new scripts in pursuit of informational efficiency. Codes of Modernity brings these experiments together to offer new ways to understand scripts and rethink the shared experiences of a global information age.
The Bibliography of Shorthand
Author: John Westby-Gibson
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Irrepressible Reformer
Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838906804
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Drawing from years of archival research, preeminent Melvil Dewey historian Wayne A. Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of this enigmatic reformer. While providing richer background on Dewey's positive achievements than earlier, reverential biographies, Wiegand reveals his subject as one who was "driven, tense, often arrogant," who had "an obsessive need to control...and self-righteously denied his own racism and class prejudices.".
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838906804
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Drawing from years of archival research, preeminent Melvil Dewey historian Wayne A. Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of this enigmatic reformer. While providing richer background on Dewey's positive achievements than earlier, reverential biographies, Wiegand reveals his subject as one who was "driven, tense, often arrogant," who had "an obsessive need to control...and self-righteously denied his own racism and class prejudices.".
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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The Atlantic Monthly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Atlantic Monthly
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Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Catalogue of the Library of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office. Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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