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 ...

Because of the obvious radical difference between the way that the Chinese write and the way that we write, many myths have grown up, not just around China's writing system, but around its language as ...

This results in texts that contain much more visual variety than almost every other writing system. Chinese writing presents the reader with a unique visual story formed using a diverse range of ...