Revision of Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese / Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor, c1995.

Introduction -- Spoken Chinese -- Chinese characters: Hanzi -- Meaning representation in characters -- Sound representation by characters -- History of education and literacy in China -- Reforming spoken and written Chinese -- School, and learning to read in Chinese -- Korean language -- Hancha: Chinese characters -- Han'gŭl: alphabetic syllabary -- Learning and using Han'gŭl -- Why should Hancha be kept? -- History of education and literacy in Korea -- Japanese language -- Kanji: Chinese characters -- Kana: Japanese syllabary -- Rōmanji: Roman letters -- Why keep Kanji? -- History of mass literacy in Japan -- Learning and using Kanji and Kana -- The Japanese educational system -- Eye movements and text writing in East Asia -- Reading and the brain -- East Asian students in international tests -- Logographic characters vs phonetic scripts.