Understanding Chinese Characters by Their Ancestral Forms

Ping-gam Go

ISBN 10: 0962311375 / ISBN 13: 9780962311376

Verlag: Simplex Pubn, 2004

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Titel: Understanding Chinese Characters by Their ...

Verlag: Simplex Pubn

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 4. Auflage

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Inhaltsangabe:

This book reveals the meaning of Chinese characters by means of their ancestral forms. The reader will discover that it takes little effort and imagination to understand the most common and widely used characters. Ping-gam Go provides a full-color photo survey of San Francisco's chinatown and a dictionary of 288 Chinese characters.

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Ping-gam Go, who descended from the Fukien province in China, was born in Java, Indonesia. He traveled abroad for his education, earning degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Amsterdam and postgraduate degrees in geology from Imperial College of Science & Technology in London and Leyden University in Holland.After working for the Indonesian Geological Survey in Java, he returned to Amsterdam, where he worked as a science editor for Elsevier Publishing Company. Af the time, Elsevier compiled and produced English translations of all Nobel Prize Lectures, which were held in the winner's native language. The Nobel Foundation in Sweden officially recognized Ping-gam Go for his work as editor and for his contributions to these translations.