Chinese Characters

By Nina Train Choa

Book Overview

Explore the history and meanings behind Chinese characters with this fascinating language book. Language can give a tremendous insight into the culture of a nation. Chinese characters, with their strong pictorial aspect, provide a great source of revealing information regarding ancient Chinese civilization and its historical connection with contemporary Chinese writing. As you turn the pages, you will tour a carefully selected collection of Chinese characters in daily use, illustrated by beautiful ancient inscriptions as well as both simple and detailed explanations. From these you can gain a better understanding and appreciation of the evolution of Chinese characters and the culture embodied in them. The Chinese characters in this book are a modest representation which gives a clue to the amazing relationship between their forms and meanings. Generally they fall into four categories: radicals, people or body parts, plants and nature as well as objects, all related to the simple aspects of daily life in ancient China.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602201072
• ISBN13: 9781602201071
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Shanghai Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"