Outline of Chinese Linguistics Character Form and Meaning Studies

Author: Yang Shudu
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Yang Shudu (1885-1956) was a linguist and a member of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the Director of Hunan Literary and Historical Research Institute and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Yang Shudu dedicated his life to academic pursuits, writing extensively in his spare time. He made significant contributions in grammar, rhetoric, etymology, paleography, textual criticism, philology, oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, and archaeology. To better study, inherit, and research Yang Shudu's rich academic legacy, the author compiled this book, An Outline of Chinese Linguistics: A Study of Characters' Forms and Meanings. This book is a representative work of Yang Shudu in the field of linguistics. The author claims, "It took over ten years to complete these two books, and a lot of effort was put into them." These two books comprehensively collected the achievements of previous scholars in character research, clarified the distinction between pictographs and ideographs, further refined the types of Chinese character structure, and revealed the general laws of character development. This book is an indispensable reference for the study of linguistics.