Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write the character , it not only has a sound, niu, it has a meaning, “cow.” Only a ...

"Back then Cambridge was very keen on history students writing in a rather argumentative style," says the 35-year-old lecturer in Chinese history ... (2004), Zhu Wen's I Love Dollars (2006 ...

Professor Kingsbury is an expert on contemporary Chinese literature and translator of Love in a Fallen City ... the novelette that established Chang's writing style and literary fame.

Of the approximately 200 countries in the world today, China and Japan are the only two that still use the Chinese writing system, known as kanji in Japanese. According to the Kojiki and ...