Understanding Kanji Characters by Their Ancestral Forms: Learning Kanji Through Pictures [Paperback]

Ping-Gam Go (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0962311367 | ISBN-13: 978-0962311369 | Edition: 1st

Ping-gam Go creates a complete lesson plan to learn Kanji characters by understanding the hidden art, myth, and culture within the characters of the written Japanese language. Lessons cover over 313 Japanese kanji characters, which is about one third of the required number of characters that an elementary school student in Japan should know. Lessons are divided into easy, not-so-easy, and difficult sections. This compact book is suitable for young students learning Japanese in school programs as well as seasoned tourists and business travelers.

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About the Author

Ping-gam Go, who descended from the Fukien province in China, was born in Java, Indonesia. He traveled abroad for his education, earning degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Amsterdam and post-graduate degrees in geology from Imperial College of Science & Technology in London and Leyden University in Holland. Ping-gam Go worked for Elsevier Publishing Company in Amsterdam as a science editor on the English translations of all Nobel Prize lectures. The Nobel Foundation in Sweden recognized him for his work as editor and for his contributions to these translations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 167 pages
• Publisher: Simplex Publications; 1st edition (January 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962311367
• ISBN-13: 978-0962311369
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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