Download or read book The Nature of Chinese Character written by Barbara Aria and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the best-selling tradition of The Spirit of the Chinese Character comes a beautiful companion, The Nature of the Chinese Character. Masterfully crafted earthly symbols are displayed throughout these rich, colorful pages--from sky and wind to water and sand. Each is accompanied by a graceful drawing illustrating the organic form that inspired the calligraphic representation and an enlightening description of the meaning, lore, and construction of the character. At once an inquiry into centuries of thought and a paean to the oldest functional art form, The Nature of the Chinese Character is exquisite in its own right-an elegant keepsake that both informs and enchants
Download or read book The Nature of the Chinese Character written by Aria, Barbara and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature of the Chinese Character written by Barbara Aria and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the best-selling tradition of The Spirit of the Chinese Character comes a beautiful companion, The Nature of the Chinese Character. Masterfully crafted earthly symbols are displayed throughout these rich, colorful pages--from sky and wind to water and sand. Each is accompanied by a graceful drawing illustrating the organic form that inspired the calligraphic representation and an enlightening description of the meaning, lore, and construction of the character. At once an inquiry into centuries of thought and a paean to the oldest functional art form, The Nature of the Chinese Character is exquisite in its own right-an elegant keepsake that both informs and enchants
Download or read book The Nature of the Chinese Character written by Barbara Aria and published by . This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Structure of the Chinese Language written by Thomas Myers and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Typewriter written by Thomas S. Mullaney and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters—in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for “Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained “typewriter girls” and “typewriter boys.” Still later was the “Double Pigeon” typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an input method that was the first instance of “predictive text.” Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an “object history” but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Download or read book Chinese Characteristics written by Arthur H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE NATURE OF THE CHINESE CHARACTER CALLIGRAPHY BY RUSSELL ENG GON written by Barbara Aria and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Characters written by Nina Train Choa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of commonly used Chinese characters, including radicals, people and body parts, plants and nature, and objects, and explaining what each character means and how they reflect Chinese culture and history.
Download or read book Kingdom of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Download or read book Learn Chinese from 37 Characters written by Yong Chun Zhong and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Zhong has invented a new and fun way to learn how to pronounce all Chinese characters without using any alien phonetic symbols such as pinyin. Using conversations, proverbs, songs and stories as examples, Dr Zhong also demonstrates how easily to master the 37 Chinese characters used as the phonetic notation in this book while providing a practical learning strategy to satisfy your individual learning need.Drawing from his own experiences in teaching and speaking bilingually, Dr Zhong makes learning this popular but complex language much easier than using conventional methods and allows the learner to independently explore the intrinsic harmony of the Chinese language. * A breakthrough in teaching and learning the Chinese language. * With only 37 commonly used Chinese characters, you can easily work out the pronunciation of any Chinese character.* You will be able to learn both the pronunciation and the meaning of Chinese words at the same time by focusing on written Chinese.* It is revealed that every Chinese character is phonetically related to other characters, allowing direct trial-and-error learning.* A truly generative learning method to master Chinese independently.* The character-based phonetic notation is as natural as the phonetic indicators originally used to create the majority of Chinese characters.* For the first time, a practical learning strategy will enable you to plan which Chinese characters should be studied at any stage.* By using the 2,500 commonly used characters selected in this book, you will be able to read aloud and understand over 98% of the content in Chinese publications. * A self-sufficient handbook for all you need to master the Chinese language.
Download or read book Chinese Characteristics written by Arthur Henderson Smith and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Henderson Smith (1845 – 1932) spent 54 years as a missionary in China. During his residence there, he wrote a series of books which interpreted China to foreign readers: Chinese Characteristics, Village Life in China and The Uplift of China.
Download or read book Chinese Characters written by Shao Hwa Tan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Characteristics written by Arthur H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a highly observant British missionary after living fifteen years in the country, and first published in 1890 in China, this book presents the social life and personal character traits of the typical Chinese. In spite of the drastic changes in the past 110 years, the patterns of behavior and social mores of the people is probably much the same as when this book was written. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Chinese Characters written by Alan Hoenig and published by Dr. Alan Hoenig. This book was released on 2009 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese--how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters--is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings with the characters' visual components. A sequence of numbered panels displays each character in two font styles, and a notation in the adjacent margin describes the character's pinyin pronunciation. Graphics that identify the components or characters from which the featured characters are drawn, and a listing of both the names of these root components, and the panel numbers that cite their location in the book augment the presentation. Beginners will be best served by using this guide in conjunction with the development of language skills, while those who are familiar with the language will find this book to be a comprehensive reference and refresher.
Download or read book A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing in a Letter to John Voughan Esq written by Peter S. du Ponceau and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Download or read book Comprehend Chinese Character Simplification written by Shengdar Lee, Ph.D. and published by Chinese Book Web. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete, logical, and comprehensive book for learning Chinese-character simplification. It makes mastering both Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters very easy. This book fills a vacuum in the marketplace, alleviating the troubles of the people who need to learn. In the first chapter, the author makes a concise narrative about the simplification of Chinese characters, allowing the reader to gain an overall understanding of the subject. The author discusses the two simplification measures, and the structure of "General Tables of Simplified Characters" that consists of three tables. Chapters 2 and 3 analyze the two simplification measures, namely, reducing the number of stokes in a character and reducing the number of characters, respectively. The author systematically classifies the characters in detailed groupings based on their simplification characteristics. Then in Chapters 4 and 5, the author summarizes Tables 1 and 2 of the "General Tables of Simplified Characters" according to these classifications, explaining the simplification characteristics character by character. Chapter 6 discusses Table 3; these characters are derived by the analogies of simplified characters and simplified radicals of Table 2. All the data in the book are presented in tabular form - simple, clear, and easy to understand. In addition, the “General Tables of Simplified Characters” are listed in the Appendices. Therefore, this is an essential reference book. Regarding the measure of reducing the number of characters, for the more than two hundred characters that have been combined, numerous vocabularies are listed as examples for each character, and thus illuminating their meanings in great detail. Therefore, it is also a good book for learning Chinese characters. This book has 3 language versions: English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
