"Illiteracy is increasing in China, despite a 50-year-old campaign to stamp it out and a declaration by the government in 2000 that it had been nearly eradicated. The reasons are complex, from the cost of a rural education to the growing appeal of migrant work that draws Chinese away from classrooms and toward far-off cities." 04-07
"This dictionary uses traditional etymologies and a unique series of charts based on them to show the close relationships between Chinese characters -- which are all derived from about 200 simple pictographs and ideographs in ways that are usually quite logical and easy to remember." - Gene R. Thursby