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by Christoph Schmitz (Translator), Shizuka Shirakawa (Author)
The milestone for really understanding Chinese characters (called kanji in Japan, hanzi in China, hanja in Korea). This translation of Shirakawa's bestselling Japanese dictionary gives you the correct explanations with an introduction to their mindset. It is the long-awaited true system of Chinese characters revealed for the first time and the only help for understanding and memorizing Chinese characters that works. Shizuka Shirakawa (1910-2006) was a terrific Chinese character scholar who is now widely acknowledged in East Asia. His method of teaching and explaining Chinese characters is now the standard method adopted at a number of Japanese schools.
Christoph Schmitz is lucky being the only western scholar to have met and exchanged letters with him. He made East Asia's foremost Chinese character research available in English for the first time. * SHIRAKAWA METHOD -- Includes vocabulary and a commentary on the Shirakawa approach.* FULLY INDEXED -- Alphabetical vocabulary and classifier index.
* THOROUGH CHARACTER FORM EXPLANATIONS -- Practical commentary explains the history of each character, revealing the hitherto undisclosed secrets of Chinese characters.
* FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS -- This amazing resource is the world's first truly independent look into kanji-guru Shirakawa's work and gives English-speaking readers an unbiased, beautifully printed and time-saving access to the best kanji method available. A practical comment explains the history of character research and its failures in East Asia and the West, the hitherto undisclosed secrets of Chinese characters, and also their political usage.
(Paperback) First publication January 2016 (earlier date is merely that of ISBN allotment)
Author Biography
Shizuka Shirakawa is East Asia's foremost scholar of Chinese characters who has made many breakthrough discoveries leading to the most convincing explanations of their system. His method of teaching and explaining Chinese characters is now the standard method adopted at a considerable part of Japanese elementary schools. He received many important prices and Japan's highest national decoration in the realm of culture, the Order of Cultural Merit. About the translator and commentator: Christoph Schmitz is a native of Cologne on the River Rhine and is of German and Polish descent. He studied Philosophy, History, and Japanology. Starting at the University of Constance (also a city on the Rhine) he continued studies at the Faculty of Comparative Culture of Sophia University (Tokyo), and at the University of D?seldorf (another city on the Rhine). M.A. and Dr. phil. (2002). He was then researcher at the Graduate School of Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo. Since being a freshman, Schmitz noticed how mistranslations of classics and misnomers result in severe international misunderstandings. He then turned to Chinese characters, a subject the history and explanation of which Occidental scholars have always neglected. For the first time in the history of East Asian studies, Schmitz illustrates that pivotal terms are mistranslated by most of the 'authorities' one is used to trust, with severe results. With this translation and commentary, hitherto clueless Sinology and Japanology is given a thorough foundation in Chinese character studies. Schmitz's comment is an additional piece of independent scholarship. Having corresponded with Shizuka Shirakawa in Kyoto, visiting him and hearing his lectures, he is now living in Japan (Tokyo) for sixteen years. For scholarly and business contact (ordering calligraphy of characters from the early styles) send an email to ChineseCharacters(at)telekom.de
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