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2016-08-31
This is the English translation of a short essay published on April 11th 2002 in The Canadian Chinese Times, a community newspaper in Edmonton. It is on the validity and sustainability of the traditional vertical text direction of written and printed Chinese texts. The original Chinese essay is...
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Comparison of Pronunciation in Ancient Chinese, Modern Cantonese and Modern Mandarin, with Japanese Examples = 唐代中文與當代中文
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Notable similarities between Ancient Chinese (a.k.a. Middle Chinese) and modern Cantonese are shown with examples of Chinese characters. This comparison was inspired by Bernhard Karlgren's work on Ancient Chinese.
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2012-07-01
Discussions on the unique vertical text direction of written or printed Chinese are scarce. A common view on why Chinese characters were invented to move vertically across the writing medium maintains that vertical text was the result of using bamboo strips for writing Chinese characters in the...
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2007-01-01
This essay introduces simple HTML coding for creating vertical text on the Web. This coding can also enable images to move horizontally across the screen in a panoramic presentation. The coding is originally a Microsoft adaptation of a version of Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3), and as such in...
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Table of contents of 中國書畫全書 (2009; 20 volume-set)
2011-01-01
The multi-volume set 中國書畫全書 published by 上海書畫出版社 in 2009 contains major pre-modern writings on Chinese calligraphy and painting. The complete list of writings contained there is present only in volume 1 of the set. Louis Chor transcribed the entire list (the table of contents) as this Web page....