Chinese Character Writing For Dummies

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Title Page......Page 3 Copyright Page......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 5 About This Book......Page 7 Where to Go from Here......Page 8 Appreciating the Complexities of Written Chinese......Page 9 How the Written Word Unifies China......Page 10 Which Way Did They Go? The Direction of Characters......Page 11 Chinese Language Reform......Page 12 Traditional versus Simplified Characters......Page 13 Strategies for Learning to Write Chinese Characters......Page 14 Write, review, rinse, repeat......Page 15 Practice creative visualization......Page 16 Simple versus Composite Characters......Page 17 The Six Scripts......Page 18 Pictographs......Page 19 Phonetic compounds......Page 20 What a Radical Idea! The Incredible Radical......Page 21 How to use a Chinese dictionary . . . without an alphabet......Page 22 Deciphering Strokes......Page 23 Types of strokes......Page 24 Stroke order......Page 25 Chapter 3 Preparing to Write Beautifully......Page 27 From etchings to brush and ink......Page 28 Moveable type and word processing......Page 29 Oracle bone script......Page 30 Seal script......Page 31 Grass script......Page 32 The Four Treasures of Chinese Calligraphy......Page 33 Writing brush......Page 34 Ink stone......Page 35 Tools and Techniques for the Modern-Day Calligrapher (or Writer)......Page 36 Chapter 4 100 Chinese Characters......Page 39 Appendix A The 214 Chinese Radicals......Page 89 Appendix B Compound Words to Practice......Page 97 Appendix C Sentences to Practice......Page 107 Appendix D Blank Grids for Extra Practice......Page 119 EULA......Page 147