continuing the obsession
Book from the Sky, by Xu Bing:What's on those sheets on the floor? Here's a close-up:Well, those certainly look...
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more debates about Chinese orthography
Following up on two earlier posts about the realtive merits of the traditional and simplified Chinese characters,...
Pound and Fenollosa
About ninety-five years ago, the American poet Erza Pound, then living in London, received the manuscript of an essay...
more ideography
In response to yesterday’s post on traditional and simplified Chinese characters, I got a really interesting...
ideography
Here’s a fascinating post by James Fallows on a current debate in China about how to form the ideographic...