Speaking of ChineseNot a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth. |
Contents
Speaking of Chinese | 3 |
Written Chinese | 12 |
Spoken Chinese | 34 |
vi | 64 |
Domestic Chinese | 76 |
Old Wisdom New Technology | 101 |
Chinese Calligraphy | 129 |
Chronological Chart of Chinese | 180 |
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acters alphabet American ancient artistic bái bamboo Beijing brush Cai Lun calendar called callig calligraphic styles Cantonese century A.D. Chapter Chinese calligraphy Chinese characters Chinese language Chinese poetry cooking culture described dialect dragon Du Fu emperor English friends given name Han dynasty handwriting hão homonyms Hóng horse Hu Shih huà ideographs imperial ink stick inkstone invention Li Bai lines literally lunar Mainland Mandarin means Ming movable type nese never number of strokes oracle bones overseas Chinese painters paper People's Republic phonetic piece Pinyin Pinyin Romanization poem poet printing Proverb putōnghuà Qing radical rén Republic of China rice scholars script seal Shang silk Song speak spoken Chinese stone surname symbol Tang dynasty thousand Tiger tion traditional Translation wàn Wang Wang Xizhi wényán West Western calligraphy writing written Wu-jiang yán yáng Zhou