Via China Now's Book Review section, I found this on Irving Babbitt & his influence in China.

There's also a reprint of Can India Overtake China? by Yasheng Huang and Tarun Khanna.

And an article about artist Jiao Yingqi�s proposal to invent new characters, by Yu Rongfu

�The radical chart of a Chinese dictionary,� says Jiao, �is a laundry list of pre-20th century, pre-Industrial Revolution concepts. But there is no reason it has to be that way.�

To address the disconnect between China�s writing system and the post-steam engine world, Jiao embarked on a personal and theoretical project he calls New Characters (Xin Hanzi). Via a trial-and-error process that tightly integrates his artistic, design and theoretical interests, he has thus far created 32 new radicals.

Each new radical, combined with existing or new radicals, carries the potential for hundreds of new characters and words.

What's the character for "tool"?