Learn to write Chinese characters

✍ Scribed by Björkstén, Johan

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English, Swedish
• Leaves: 130
• Series: Yale language series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The History and Structure of Characters. Looking Up Characters in a Dictionary --
The Aesthetics of Characters: Alive on Paper --
Writing Characters. The Tools of Writing. Now to Practice. The Basic Strokes. Some Composite Strokes. Stroke Order --
The Aesthetics of Characters: Composition. Some Characters Have a Key Stroke. Characters Fit in Imaginary Squares. Repeated Elements Are Executed with Variation. Some Characters Have Left and Right Parts. Some Characters Have Left, Middle, and Right Parts. Some Characters Have a Top-Bottom Structure. Framed Characters. A Few Difficult Characters --
The Radicals --
A Poem and More Characters to Practice. "A Thought on a Still Night" Characters to Practice.