The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

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Summary: Fenollosa's woderful book on human language and art
Review: Fenollosa's Book: "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry" is a marvelous one. However its title is deceiving. It suggests that its subject were limited to the written form of some kind of oriental poetry. On the contrary, I never learned so much general concepts from a single book as from this tiny one about so distant arguments such as language as a mean of communication, ethimology, the importance of dynamics in speech, the relationship between science and language and of art in general. And all in 45 small formatted pages. And if you read it again, instead of being bored, discover a lot of new ideas escaped the attention because of the richness so prodigiously offered to the reader.