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Book SynopsisFor the first time, leading personalities such as Qi Gong, Yau Shing-Tung, Zhao Jiping, Chen Guying and Zhao Ping'an write together about one of the most important vehicles of their culture, Chinese characters. This carefully edited and well-designed volume offers both the Chinese and western reader a unique and thorough insight into the world of Chinese characters.
Trade Review"... Insgesamt eroffnet der substanzielle, mit zahlreichen grossformatigen Tafeln ebenso informative wie bibliophile Band einen fundierten Zugang auch fur die westliche Leserschaft zu einer der faszinierendsten Sprachen der Welt, ohne aus 'logisch-philosophischen' Grunden uber sie schweigen zu mussen." Neue Zurcher Zeitung 22.12.2004
Table of ContentsForeword (Qi Gong).- A Discourse on Chinese Epigraphy (Qi Gong).- A Personal Understanding of Chinese Calligraphy (Qi Gong).- A Biographical Note on Qi Gong (Huo Gang).- The Influence of Clericalization on Chinese Characters: Expounding a critical stage in the development of the Chinese script (Zhao Ping'an).- The Chinese Character Dao and the Philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi: Laozi's and Zhuangzi's theory of the Dao looked at from three points of view (Chen Guying).- Music and Chinese Characters: A dialogue in the Qingling Mountains (Zhao Jiping).- A Mathematician Looks at Chinese Characters (Yau Shing-Tung).- Editor's acknowledgment.- Illustrations.- Chinese texts
