This book presents a fascinating and stunningly beautiful introduction to Chinese language and culture.The origins of Chinese ideographs were not k...
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Apr 04, 2010
AC
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really fascinating... This book shows the pictorial development of characters so as to teach their meaning.... the author is a scholar with the heart of a poet...
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Mar 08, 2010
Jerome Espinosa
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Lindqvist's book, as translated by Joan Tate, is a superb learning book on Chinese characters. After having read it, I was reminded by a remark of a friend, who is Filipino Chinese, who snobbishly told me, "being able to write those characters would not actually mean much -- and that it's more important to be able to speak the language (he spoke Fookien, and I learned in subsequent talks that he really had to struggle learning to draw Chinese characters, as he was also studying Mandarin)."
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