Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Rather than focusing on the accuracy of this ideograph as a kind of representation of China (a focus that would yield predictable results), Christopher Bush reconstructs the specific history of the ideograph in order to explore the question of representation in more fundamental ways, ways that reflect the diversity and complexity of literary modernism itself.On one level, the book makes an argument about the meaning and function of the ideograph during the modernist period, namely that this imagined Chinese writing was a complex response to the various writings of such technological media as the photograph, the phonograph, the cinematograph, and the telegraph. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Val�ry, among others, Ideographic Modernism traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "the Orient" lived on in modernist-era responses to media.On another level, the book makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism. In addition to being its subject matter, then, ideographic modernism is also the book's method: a polemically "literal" way of reading that calls for reevaluations both of how modernist literature related to its historical contexts and of the ways in which we can understand that relationship today.

Product Description: First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force...read more

Product Description: A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese—how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters—is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings with the characters’ visual components...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A mother amuses her young son at the beach by drawing Chinese characters in the sand, many of which resemble the objects they stand for.

Product Description: For non-native speakers of Chinese, learning to write Chinese can be one of the most challenging aspects of the language; learners are often asked to memorize characters by simply writing them over and over again, without a basic understanding of their meanings...read more

Product Description: The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is learning to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters that are fundamental to this language...read more

Product Description: The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is learning to recognize,read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. The Second 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition adopts a structural approach that helps students toovercome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters that arefundamental to this language...read more

Product Description: Each of the 1,000 basic Chinese characters in this volume is chosen with beginners in mind. Each character is accompanied by a detailed analysis, explaining the equivalent meaning in English with ample bilingual samples; common collocations and their related idiomatic usage; tone and pronunciation specific to the usage; stroke order with simplified and traditional forms; and parts of speech...read more

Product Description: Chinese characters are recognized throughout the Far East; however, many of the spoken languages vary. This remarkable guide makes a difficult language accessible by explaining the characters' meanings and formation. It focuses on the  universality of the symbols, combining illustrations and notes to show the philosophy and art behind the written characters...read more

Product Description: The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters fundamental to this language...read more

Product Description: The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters fundamental to this language...read more

Product Description: Gateway to Chinese Character Writing is designed to show beginners of Chinese how to write a Chinese character properly. The book introduces the principles that govern the construction of Chinese characters, the basic strokes that comprise Chinese characters, and the proper stroke order when writing Chinese characters...read more

Product Description: Fundamentals of Chinese Characters focuses on the connections between the shapes and meanings of basic Chinese characters, enabling students to learn to recognize and write Chinese characters before they learn to speak Chinese.Presenting fundamental knowledge of Chinese characters according to their intrinsic regularity rather than in the sequence often used in teaching spoken Chinese, this book enables teachers to offer students a course on Chinese characters alongside a Chinese language course at the elementary level...read more

Product Description: This is a revised third edition of Tuttle's Reading & Writing Chinese.This new edition focuses on the internationally recognized test of proficiency in Chinese, the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK). All 800 characters prescribed for Level A are covered here, and the 1400+ Levels B and C characters are covered concisely...read more

Product Description: Developing Writing Skills in Chinese has been devised for post-intermediate students who need to write Chinese in the course of their life, work or study. Suitable for classroom or self-study use, each unit contains a selection of model texts, followed by clear notes in English on the format, style, grammar or special phrases demonstrated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the development and use of written languages among the ancient Chinese people.

Product Description: Now learning non-Roman-alphabet languages is as easy as A-B-C! Readers wanting to learn the basics of reading and writing a new language that employs script will find all they need in the Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series...read more

Helps develop writing skills in beginning students by illustrating and describing the pronunciation, origin, and meaning of Chinese characters selected from a list used in adult education classes in mainland China

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Product Description: This text is part of a series which aims to advance insight into the multifaceted character of written language, with special emphasis on its uses in different social and cultural settings. This edition focuses particularly on writing in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Explains how Chinese writing developed and demonstrates how to write over seventy-five Chinese characters, using detailed instructions and examples

Product Description: An introductory manual for writing Chinese characters specifically designed for English-speaking readers. The author guides the reader through the fundamentals of writing, introduces the various scripts used in China and demonstrates how to write with a fountain pen rather than a brush...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains how Chinese writing developed, and demonstrates how to write seventy-five Chinese characters, using detailed instructions and examples