Funny Chinese Script
by Zhang Yihan
Description
The author enables the reader to understand the advancement of Chinese history through the reorganization and introduction of the development of Chinese scripts over the past 5,000 years. Starting from the ancient times with tying knots to the legendary of Cang Jie Creates Writing, the look of Chinese script has been evolving and evolving. Through oracle bone script, large seal script, small seal script, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script, Chinese characters are the only writing system in the world that has not been lost. The author finds the interesting stories behind the Chinese scripts by combining historical facts to uncover representative fonts. It also includes the introduction of historical minority scripts, so that readers can better understand that not only Chinese characters were glorious in Chinese history, but also minority scripts which also witnessed the process of ethnic integration and development. This book also includes the only gender script that exists in the world today, the Jiangyong Women's Script from Hunan, which is a unique and rare cultural relic, and it also a valuable resource for our national culture. Chinese characters have also been widely spread throughout history, and this book also introduce how the Chinese characters spread to other countries.
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Author Biography
Zhang Yihan is a designer, illustrator and curator, born in 1979 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He is a professional member and vice president of Shenzhen Illustration Association, a member of Shenzhen Graphic Design Association, and served as a preliminary judge of National Illustration Art Biennale (CIB2015-2016). His commercial and illustration works have won many awards in the graphic design category as well as the illustration category, and his works have been invited to participate in exhibitions at home and abroad several times.
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- Publisher Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House
- Publication Date May 2023
- Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
- ISBN/Identifier 9787556260843
- Publication Country or regionChina
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 39.80 CNY
- Pages152
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title好玩的中国字
- Original Language Authors张一晗
- Dimensions250×240 mm
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