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Read About China in Cursive Script by Chang Yi-nan


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thanks.

If you go to "different sizes" you can look at "original" and see the brushwork.

This is in contrast to Fred Wang's book which uses a fixed width pen if I remember. Also Wang's book has examples from several contributors.

A few things for beginners to note(which I a beginner note):

1. stroke order is key

2. stroke order is key :mrgreen:

3. in the first essay you can see "zhong guo" (sorry don't have ime installed on this computer) a few times, and each looks a little different.

4. regarding the examples of zhongguo, the most abbreviated versions of "guo" are basically the simplified character version. I don't know about other hanzi, but this suggests to me that there is a cultural connection between the traditional and simplified characters which counters the claim, which maybe you don't hear that much anymore, that simplified characters represent a betrayal of Chinese culture. (I hope this remark doesn't derail the thread)

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Bumping this, does any body have any sources for Chang Yi-nan's Read about China in Cursive Script? I've been searching around for about an hour now and the only links I can ever find point to the dead flickr link above. Did anyone here happen to download the copy here, or have any idea how to get hold of this book?

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yeah ive got this one, unfortunately the author states his book Read about China in Cursive Script is intended to be read in between Fang yu wangs Chinese cursive script and chinese letters in cursive script. i just cant deal with this book seemingly have disappeared into some dusty library somewhere and noone being able to use it!

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https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no%3A43794463

 

https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01HVD_ALMA212185410680003941&context=L&vid=HVD2&lang=en_US&search_scope=default_scope&adaptor=Local Search Engine&tab=books&query=lsr02,contains,43794463&sortby=rank

 

You may be able to find something here, but I think they are are hard copies for lending, but they may have a digital version, might be worth asking. You never know where it might take you, I leave you to chase down the leads, I must go to bed?

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Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask about this. I've finished working through Wang Fangyu's introduction to Chinese cursive script and I would like to move on to another book that is referenced in it called "Read about China in cursive script" (行草漫談中國) by one 李抱忱 but it is exceedingly rare and seemingly impossible to find. Does anyone know if this book is available anywhere?

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nope, nobody got back to me. i regularly go on ebay and run searches on these kind of old books and occasionally get lucky, but no nothing so far from this author yet either. Don't worry, Ill drop in if and when i do manage to get hold of anything

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It looks like the book was published by FSI, the Foreign Service Institute, which is part of the U.S. State Department. As such, the book would not be copyrighted since it's a Federal government publication. This is why the FSI course materials for many languages are so widely available.

 

You can try asking FSI for a copy, first informally then with a FOIA request, if necessary.

 

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16 hours ago, Simahui said:

I've finished working through Wang Fangyu's introduction to Chinese cursive script and I would like to move on to another book that is referenced in it

Not related to your exact question, but still possibly helpful if you are looking for a more advanced and thorough book to practice Chinese handwriting (either to improve your own handwriting, or to improve your ability to read other people's), is this book.  If you work your way through that book, doing all the examples, then by the time you finish you should be able to read a large amount of the handwritten Chinese you see.

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Definitely interested as well, I'm very interested in practical cursive, common and unofficial variants, etc. I've done some brush cursive calligraphy but not all of it is particularly practical or legible. I managed to get my hands on a rare copy of a little dictionary of unofficial simplified characters which is also quite useful for handwritten stuff, it's amazing how often these variants turn up.

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