---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 15 Jul 2000 New in IGCS - Online Bibliographies: Literacy, Writing and Education Ed./Corp.: Barend J. ter Haar, Institute for Chinese Studies, Heidelberg, Germany URL: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/bth/literacy.htm Language: English. Self description: "This is a survey-in-progress of the most important and more recent secondary literature on literacy, orality, writing (functions and status) and education in past and present, topically organized." Description: A well organized, extensive, and mostly annotated (!) bibliography. Site contents: (1) Traditional China (General; Acquiring literacy; The education of children; The classical period; The examination system and academies; Printing and its cultural effects; Libraries; Contracts and other documents for daily usage; Women; Writing and Chinese religious culture; Vernacular language; Visual dimensions of writing (including calligraphy)); (2) Late Qing to present day (General; Education; Reading and writing; Communication and propaganda; Modern printing; Literacy; The formation of modern Chinese; Numeracy (desideratum); Minorities; Gender aspects); (3) Orality (General; Primary orality; Secondary orality). _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L