Is the Chinese writing system a sufficient reason on its own to guarantee that Mandarin will not become a global language like English? That’s what someone asked me after I discussed the prima facie ...
Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system. Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong ...
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Why your Chinese characters do not need to be perfect
In this video I clear up the misunderstanding from my last post about learning Chinese by writing characters. I explain why I ...
Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...
This research was conducted with Simon Jerome Han as lead author. Piers Kelly receives funding from an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Charles Kemp's work on this project was supported by an ARC Future ...
One of my biggest surprises as a blogger has been the passionate interest of so many readers in handwriting instruction, pro and con. (Previous posts here, here, and here.) In exploring the topic I ...
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