Why is Chinese writing logographic and not ideographic?
Because basic characters or graphs were “motivated”—that is, the graph was made to resemble the object it represented—it was once thought that Chinese writing is ideographic, representing ideas rather than the structures of a language. That is, a written character would be extremely ambiguous.
Is Japanese a Logographic?
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the Japanese writing system is considered to be one of the most complicated in current use.
Is Korean a logographic language?
The Korean writing system, Hangul, is an “alphabetic syllabary” which employs many of the good and few of the bad features of an alphabet, a syllabary, and a logography. A syllable is a more stable unit of language than a phoneme, but a simple syllabary is practical only for a language with few different syllables.
Why might the Chinese want to keep the silk making process a secret?
Why did the Chinese keep silk-making methods a secret? They wanted to be the only people who knew how to make the valuable fabric. In exchange for silk, traders returned with gold, silver, horses, and precious stones.
Do the Chinese and Japanese really think Japan has apologized enough?
Roughly half the Japanese say their country has apologized sufficiently for its military actions during the 1930s and 1940s. And such sentiment is up 13 percentage points since 2006. The Chinese see this issue quite differently. Just 10\% of Chinese believe Japan has apologized enough.
What do Chinese people think of Japan?
This survey, which was commissioned by the Japanese think tank Genron NPO and China Daily, asked 1,805 Japanese citizens and 1,540 Chinese citizens about their views of the other country. The survey found that 92.8 percent of Chinese respondents hold unfavorable views of Japan, a startling 28 percent rise from the year before.
How do Japanese and Chinese publics view each other?
For one thing, elite opinion in both countries tended to be much more positive than the public at large, with 52.8 percent of Chinese elites and 36.3 percent of Japanese elites saying that they viewed the other country positively. Majorities in both countries agreed or somewhat agreed that Japan and China should cooperate on issues in East Asia.
Should Japan and China cooperate on issues in East Asia?
Majorities in both countries agreed or somewhat agreed that Japan and China should cooperate on issues in East Asia. Additionally, despite the level of negativity on both sides, over 72 percent of Chinese respondents and over 74 percent of Japanese surveyed said that the bilateral relationship was important.