《汉字革命》内容简介

　　全书如同一个充满戏剧性张力的故事，既有宏观性的国际视野，又有耐人寻味的历史细节。从催生汉字革命的语音中心主义转向开始，讨论汉字革命的发生、变异和中止。跟随着作者的论述，可以看到20世纪多位语言学家和文学家如赵元任、瞿秋白、许地山、晏阳初、叶圣陶、陈梦家、唐兰等参与汉字革命的经历，他们背景和立场各异，所提供的汉字改革方案也侧重各异，而汉字革命在中国一步步的变异，正与中国革命的紧张进程相呼应、重叠，从二十世纪初，历经五四、抗战、新中国成立，时代洪流为汉字革命赋予了不同面向。在最后，通过对周有光的介绍，阐明了汉字革命结束后的“余波”，并表示了汉字革命虽然已经中止，但“语文事业未竟”。

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　　20世纪中国，风起云涌的汉字革命是一个几被遗忘的重要历史事件。这场革命与新文化运动和白话文运动伴生同行，在废除汉字的号召下，试图在中文土壤里移植拼音字母系统、拼写大众声音，被理解成激进且进步的文学与政治革命之有机组成部分

　　本书以语音中心主义内部的辩证关系为切入视角，讨论汉字革命的发生、变异和中止，追索汉字革命在与文学革命的合流过程中产生的各种变异。赵元任、瞿秋白、许地山、晏阳初、叶圣陶、陈梦家、唐兰等语言学家和文学家，以各自的背景和立场，厕身于这场“革命”中，他们不同的“拼音化”实践，让对“声音”的追寻，融入了汉字罗马化、汉字拉丁化、五四白话话语、语体文和新形声字等不同形式的语言文字策略之中。在这一过程中，汉字革命的诉求，也与20世纪中国民族革命的紧张进程相呼应、重叠，与民族救亡、抗日战争、扫盲运动和大众教育勾连了起来，呈现出左翼的气质。最终，汉字革命在‘反殖反帝’的全球背景之下暂时落下帷幕，而基于汉字小学传统而充满后结构理论批判力的“汉字书写学”（Chinese Grammatology）也正在此刻应运而生。

　　作者简介

　　钟雨柔，加拿大多伦多大学东亚系长聘副教授。毕业于清华大学中文系比较文学与文化研究专业（学士），美国哥伦比亚大学东亚系、比较文学与社会研究所（硕士、博士）。研究兴趣包括书写系统与技术、中国现当代文学与文化、比较文学、文学与媒体理论。

Introduction to the content of Chinese Character Revolution

The book is a story full of dramatic tension, with both a macro international perspective and intriguing historical details. Starting from the phonocentrism that gave birth to the Chinese character revolution, this paper discusses the occurrence, variation and cessation of the Chinese character revolution. Following the author's discussion, we can see the experiences of many linguists and writers in the 20th century, such as Zhao Yuanren, Qu Qiubai, Xu Dishan, Yan Yangchu, Ye Shentao, Chen Mengjia and Tang LAN, who participated in the Chinese character revolution. They had different backgrounds and positions, and their Chinese character reform plans also focused on different aspects. It echoes and overlaps with the tense process of the Chinese revolution. From the beginning of the 20th century, after the May Fourth Movement, the Anti-Japanese War, and the founding of New China, the tide of The Times has given different aspects to the Chinese character revolution. In the end, through the introduction of Zhou Youguang, it explains the "aftermath" after the end of the Chinese character revolution, and indicates that although the Chinese character revolution has stopped, "the cause of Chinese is still unfinished".

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In the 20th century, the upsurge of Chinese character revolution is an important historical event that has been forgotten. This revolution was accompanied by the New Culture Movement and the vernacular Movement, an attempt to transplant the phonetic alphabet system and the spelling of the popular voice into the Chinese soil under the call for the abolition of Chinese characters, and was understood as an integral part of a radical and progressive literary and political revolution

From the perspective of the dialectical relationship within phonocentrism, this book discusses the occurrence, variation and cessation of the Chinese character revolution, tracing the various variations produced in the process of the Chinese character revolution and the literary revolution. Zhao Yuanren, Qu Qiubai, Xu Dishan, Yan Yangchu, Ye Shengtao, Chen Mengjia, Tang LAN and other linguists and writers, with their respective backgrounds and positions, are involved in this "revolution", and their different "phonization" practices make the pursuit of "sound", It is integrated into different language strategies such as Romanization of Chinese characters, Latinization of Chinese characters, May Fourth vernacular discourse, stylistic text and new phonetic characters. In this process, the demands of the Chinese character revolution also echoed and overlapped with the tense process of the Chinese national revolution in the 20th century, and linked up with the national salvation, the Anti-Japanese War, the literacy movement and mass education, showing a left-wing temperament. Finally, the Chinese character revolution came to an end temporarily under the global background of "anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism", and "Chinese Grammatology", which is full of post-structural theoretical critical power based on the tradition of Chinese primary school, is also emerging at this moment.

About the author

Yurou Chung is an adjunct professor in the Department of East Asia, University of Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, majoring in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Bachelor's degree), and Columbia University, Department of East Asia, Comparative Literature and Social Research Institute (master's degree, doctor's degree). His research interests include writing systems and technology, modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literature and media theory.