Chinese writing is logographic, that is ... Korea, and Japan. For centuries classical Chinese was the official written language in these countries. Vietnam has now adopted the Latin alphabet, and, ...

Kern says that there was a time when discussions of classical studies in the West revolved largely around ancient Greece and ...

Until King Sejong of the Choson Dynasty (1392-1897) mandated that a native writing system should be developed, Korean had no offical written form. Classical Chinese was the lingua franca for the ...