China in 1988 and 1989, black and white photographs by Mark Carpenter, who was there teaching English; 70 photos plus an epilogue that takes on the phonetic/pictographic cultural divide by exploring ways in which English words, like Chinese characters, also picture their meaning. Poetymologies is the name for iconic words, words that show you what they mean.
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