Hanzi Alive!

Hanzi Alive is the learning method of Chinese characters of the family of Liu Yong, a famous writer in Taiwan, the fruit of his painstaking effort for 30 years. Both his son Liu Xuan and daughter Liu Yifan used this book as a primer and they joined the creation. Each Chinese character has a beautiful hand-painted colorful picture and a black and white sketch, leading readers to know Chinese characters from images. And the pictures have illustration in both English and Chinese, introducing the origin of each Chinese character in simple words. It contains various types of calligraphy, including inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty, small seal style, an ancient style of calligraphy current in the Han Dynasty and the regular script, making the evolution of Chinese characters clear at a glance. Readers can enforce their memory of each Chinese character, through the treasure hunt game.