"Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?"
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"Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
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Eric A. Havelock
Eric Alfred Havelock (3 June 1903 – 4 April 1988) was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic milieu of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he served as chair of the classics departments at both Harvard and Yale.
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