Chinese Calligraphy - From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters by Edoardo Fazzioli G. Lalo “For any child fortunate enough

“For any child fortunate enough to have this generous book

and smooth Quickflow ink

I was eleven

and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling

It should not be used in a fountain pen

Chinese Calligraphy - From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters by Edoardo Fazzioli G. Lalo “For any child fortunate enoughWritten Chinese can call upon some 40,000 characters, many of which originated about 6,000 years ago as little pictures of everyday objects used by the ancients to communicate with each other. This book, which introduces the Westerner to a rich and mysterious world, is based on a classic compilation of the Chinese language done in the 18th century, which determined that all the characters then in use were devised from 214 root pictographs or symbols.