The Art of War: Chapter 1 – Sentence 6 This page contains my translation of Sentence 6 of Chapter 1: The general embodies the virtues of wisdom, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage, and discipline… Continue reading
Subdivisions of Nature – Chinese For native speakers of English, it seems so natural to recognize the world, and the organization of time and space, to be subdivided into groups of 4 that it is quite inconceivable to consider the idea that there could be any question but that this is the way the world […]
Strokes Although Chinese characters are based on pictures, the pictures are no longer as free-form as paintings. In other words, originally, people were free to draw the pictures as personal works of art. Now, however, the characters have long since become standardized into a fixed set of allowed markings, known as strokes. Characters have become […]