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Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters - Softcover

Fazzioli, Edoardo

 
9780789208705: Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0789208709 ISBN 13: 9780789208705
Verlag: ACC Art Books - IPSUK, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Written Chinese can call upon about 40,000 characters, many of which originated some 6,000 years ago as little pictures of everyday objects used by the ancients to communicate with one another. To convey more abstract ideas or concepts, the Chinese stylized and combined their pictographs. For instance, the character for "man"--a straight back above two strong legs--becomes, with the addition of a head and shoulders and arms held sternly akimbo, the character for "official." This book, modeled after a classic compilation of the Chinese language done in the 18th century, introduces readers to the 214 root pictographs or symbols upon which this writing system, whose rich complexities hold a wealth of cultural meaning, is based. These key characters, called radicals, are all delightfully presented in this volume, with their graphic development traced stage-by-stage to the present representation, where even now (in many of them) one can easily make out what was originally pictured--with the author's guidance. Centuries ago, when the Japanese took up writing, they also adopted these symbols, though they gave them different names in their own spoken language.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edoardo Fazzioli was for ten years a correspondent in Hong Kong for an international agency. During that period he also studied Chinese language and culture at Hong Kong University. He is currently a member of the Italo-Chinese Institute for Economic and Cultural Exchange, for which he has edited publications and catalogs. He has also written newspaper articles and scholarly pieces on Chinese life and civilization.

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Verlag
ACC Art Books - IPSUK
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0789208709
ISBN 13 
9780789208705
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
252
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