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ISBN10: 0812237110, ISBN13: 9780812237115, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also leading manufacturers of consumer goods that incorporate scientific breakthroughs in telecommunications, optics, and transportation. Yet there is a startling phenomenon known throughout Asia as the "creativity problem." While East Asians are able to use science, they have not demonstrated the ability to invent radically new systems and paradigms that lead to new technologies. In fact, the legal and illegal transfer of technology from the West to the East is one of the most contentious international business issues. Yet Asians who study and work in the West and depend upon Western languages for their research are among the most creative and talented scientists, no less so than their Western counterparts.William C. Hannas contends that this paradox emerges from the nature of East Asian writing systems, which are character-based rather than alphabetic. Character-based orthographies, according to the author, lack the abstract features of alphabetic writing that model the thought processes necessary for scientific creativity. When first learning to read, children who are immersed in a character-based culture are at a huge disadvantage because such writing systems do not cultivate the ability for abstract ...
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ISBN10: 0812237110, ISBN13: 9780812237115, [publisher: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR] Hardcover Based on the latest scholarship in cognitive science and linguistics, and the author s intimate experience with East Asian languages, The Writing on the Wall provides a balanced and thoughtful account of one of the most important problems facing modern Asia. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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ISBN10: 0812237110, ISBN13: 9780812237115, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania] Hardcover Hardcover. Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also leading manufacturers of consumer goods that incorporate scientific breakthroughs in telecommunications, optics, and transportation. Yet there is a startling phenomenon known throughout Asia as the "creativity problem." While East Asians are able to use science, they have not demonstrated the ability to invent radically new systems and paradigms that lead to new technologies. In fact, the legal and illegal transfer of technology from the West to the East is one of the most contentious international business issues. Yet Asians who study and work in the West and depend upon Western languages for their research are among the most creative and talented scientists, no less so than their Western counterparts.William C. Hannas contends that this paradox emerges from the nature of East Asian writing systems, which are character-based rather than alphabetic. Character-based orthographies, according to the author, lack the abstract features of alphabetic writing that model the thought processes necessary for scientific creativity. When first learning to read, children who are immersed in a character-based culture are at a huge disadvantage because such writing systems do not cultivate the ability ...
ISBN10: 0812237110, ISBN13: 9780812237115, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover Based on the latest scholarship in cognitive science and linguistics, and the author's intimate experience with East Asian languages, The Writing on the Wall provides a balanced and thoughtful account of one of the most important problems facing modern Asia in the age of globalization. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: CF; CJB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 0812237110, ISBN13: 9780812237115, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover Based on the latest scholarship in cognitive science and linguistics, and the author's intimate experience with East Asian languages, The Writing on the Wall provides a balanced and thoughtful account of one of the most important problems facing modern Asia in the age of globalization. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: CF; CJB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
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