Critique of Chinese Character Studies (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Tang Han
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Publish Date: 2007-01-03
Features: The person who achieved this great feat is the author of this book, Mr. Tang Han. Before this, he had already written several million words in multi-volume works, which was understandable that it did not attract much attention from the academic circles in mainland China. He was just an independent scholar, and his extraordinary and profound theories were likely to leave the scholars in the ivory tower speechless and unable to respond. As everyone knows, most mainstream scholars today have abandoned the purity and focus of the ivory tower. They pursue academic degrees, evaluate titles, bribe their way into journals, fabricate hot papers, and also need to curry favor with authorities and maintain good relationships. They are so busy with livelihood and fame that they have no time or mindset left to engage in fundamental research. Instead, scholars like Mr. Tang Han are free-spirited and unrestrained, pursuing scholarship not for livelihood but for fame. They spend their nights studying without seeking reputation or status, wishing only for the purity of academia and the depth of research. Such rare individuals are they, how could they be compared to the ordinary professors or boastful celebrities? This book mainly introduces the pictographic method of character formation and pictographic characters, the ideographic method of character formation and ideographic characters, the associative method of character formation and associative characters, the signifier and signified of pictographic-stage texts, and the pictographic system of Chinese characters and the pictographic stage.