Writing Systems

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Zev Handel
Professor
Department Chair
Chinese Program Coordinator

Latest News

Early Buddhist Manuscript Project featured in National Endowment for the Humanities magazine (November 15, 2019)
Zev Handel Gives Talk to Accelerator Physicists in South Korea (June 7, 2016)

Related Research

Richard G. Salomon, Collett Cox, Tim Lenz, Chanida Jantrasrisalai, Qian Lin, Fei Zhao, Michael Skinner. The Early Buddhist Manuscript Project. 1996-.
Handel, Zev. Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. University of Washington Press, 2025.
Marino, Joseph. 2021. “Mahaparaḍaha Sutra (Great Conflagration Discourse).” Journal of Gandharan Buddhist Texts, Vol 1 (http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/JGBT.2021.002).
Marino, Joseph. 2021. “Suhadukha Sutra”. Journal of Gandharan Buddhist Texts, Vol. 1 (http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/JGBT.2021.001).
Handel, Zev. Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script. Brill. April, 2019. Print.
Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, 5 volumes, ed. by Rint Sybesma, Wolfgang Behr, Yueguo Gu, Zev Handel, C.-T. James Huang, and James Myers. Leiden: Brill. 2017.
Lü, C., & Koda, K. (2017). The roles of phonological awareness and oral vocabulary knowledge in English-Chinese biliteracy acquisition among Chinese heritage language learners. Heritage Language Journal.
Lü, C. (2016). Chinese reading development among young learners in a Chinese immersion program and a Chinese heritage language school. Teaching Chinese in the World, 30, 550-562. [美国沉浸式小学和中文学校学生的中文阅读习得的发展研究，《世界汉语教学》］
Lowy, Christopher. "Nihongo no ākitekucha: kakikotoba no kōchiku tekusuto-sei o megutte." (Towards an Architecture of Text: On the Architexture of Written Japanese). Symphoniker, ed. Nagase Kai. Tokyo: Symphoniker 1.1, 2013. pg. 3-19.
Lowy, Christopher. “Chōheimen-ka shita nihongo de no komyunikēshon ni tsuite: tojikomoru nihon no hihyō.” (On Communication In a Hyperflattend Japanese Language: Japanese Criticisim and Introversion). genron etc., ed. Azuma Hiroki. Tokyo: genron 2.4, 2012. pg. 83-95.