伊斯特林《文字的产生和发展》既是一部文字史著作 ,又可以看作一部文字理论著作。书中全面论述了世界各主要文字体系的产生和发展历史 ,同时也提出并解决了一些文字理论的原则问题。作者在分析研究各种文字现象时所提出的观点和运用的方法 ,对我们的汉字研究都具有重要的借鉴和参考价值 Easterling “The Creation and Development of Characters” is both a literary history book and a literary theory book. The book comprehensively expounds the history of the birth and development of all the major writing systems in the world and also proposes and resolves some of the principles of writing theory. The author put forward his point of view and method of analysis in the analysis of various literary phenomena, have an important reference and reference value for our study of Chinese characters