In this useful volume, Fred Fang-yu Wang presents materials designed to help solve an often vexing problem for students of Chinese: how to recognize and write handwritten or cursive-style forms of Chinese characters. Such forms are not usually taught in the regular language programs in schools and colleges. Yet they are constantly used by Chinese in informal communications, notes, letters, manuscripts, diaries, and the like. In fact, Chinese seldom write anything in printed-form characters, since cursive forms are generally employed for daily use. Such forms are as frequently seen in Chinese culture as the handwritten forms seen daily in the Western environment. A person unfamilar with the cursive forms will usually find it difficult to read handwritten Chinese despite a thorough knowledge of the printed form. Thus the value of this book. This book teaches students to recognize the cursive versions of 300 basic, frequently-used characters in Chinese, radical by radical. In doing so, it fills a crucial gap in the bridge between academic learning and real-life competence.

Chinese Cursive Script: An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese (Far Eastern Publications Series)

Reference

Wang, Fred Fang-yu

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Yale University Press

A well-known chinese folktale is retold here within the limits of an elementary 300 character vocabulary. Yale and Pinyin romanization with Traditional characters. An excellent text for beginning Chinese students.

The Lady in the Painting (Far Eastern Publications Series)

Literature & Fiction

This third book of the Read Chinese series covers an additional four hundred Chinese characters, in both simplified and traditional forms. The selections are drawn from modern narrative and expository prose, as well as plays and other materials. The text uses Yale romanization and traditional characters only.

Read Chinese, Book Three (Far Eastern Publications Series)

Chang, Richard

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Chinese Cursive Script: An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese (Far Eastern Publications Series)

The Lady in the Painting (Far Eastern Publications Series)

Read Chinese, Book Three (Far Eastern Publications Series)