Excerpt from The Evolution of Chinese Writing: The Inaugural Lecture of the Michaelmas Term of the School of Chinese; October 4th, 1910 But his invention had a quality in it which those inven tions lacked: it was capable of change, and through change was preserved.' It is noteworthy that amid all the changes which Chinese writing has undergone since Ts'ang Chieh first traced his 'resemblances', the pictographic element has remained its characteristic feature. It is fundamentally a pictographic script much disguised. About ...
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Excerpt from The Evolution of Chinese Writing: The Inaugural Lecture of the Michaelmas Term of the School of Chinese; October 4th, 1910 But his invention had a quality in it which those inven tions lacked: it was capable of change, and through change was preserved.' It is noteworthy that amid all the changes which Chinese writing has undergone since Ts'ang Chieh first traced his 'resemblances', the pictographic element has remained its characteristic feature. It is fundamentally a pictographic script much disguised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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