Read About China in Cursive Script by Chang Yi-nan

[roddy]

Going to merge the two topics. Round of applause for 大块头.

[imron]

18 hours ago, Simahui said:

"Read about China in cursive script" (行草漫談中國) by one 李抱忱

 

On 11/2/2006 at 5:50 PM, geek_frappa said:

Read About China in Cursive Script by Chang Yi-nan

 

Are these the same books? The name of the author seems very different.

[Simahui]

The plot thickens! I searched the title in Chinese and found a reference in Google books credited to Li Baochen, but there is another reference in English for "read about China" (without the cursive script) also attributed to Li Baochen. Could be a mistake.

[imron]

The worldcat link Shelly posted above lists the authors (plural) as "Pao-chʻen Lee; Yi-nan Chang; Fangyu Wang", so it seems they're all in cahoots.  Perhaps try searching for Pao-chʻen Lee.

[大块头]

I scanned the book. Find it on the Internet Archive at the following link:

https://archive.org/details/readaboutchinaincursivescript

 

On 11/29/2019 at 6:36 AM, Simahui said:

The plot thickens! I searched the title in Chinese and found a reference in Google books credited to Li Baochen, but there is another reference in English for "read about China" (without the cursive script) also attributed to Li Baochen. Could be a mistake.

 

On 11/29/2019 at 7:11 AM, imron said:

The worldcat link Shelly posted above lists the authors (plural) as "Pao-chʻen Lee; Yi-nan Chang; Fangyu Wang", so it seems they're all in cahoots.  Perhaps try searching for Pao-chʻen Lee.

 

Read About China was written by Pao-ch'en Lee.

 

Yi-nan Chang took the essays in Read About China, wrote them out in cursive, and published them as the book Read about China in Cursive Script.

 

[Tomsima]

This is why I love Chinese forums, thank you @大块头, looks like a great study resource, cant wait to get reading

[Simahui]

Amazing! Many thanks, 大块头! ?

[大块头]

If there are any other out-of-print and difficult-to-find books that people want, I'm willing to scan them if they aren't too long. 

[OneEye]

What a fantastic resource, as expected. I've never seen anything done by the FSI in the 60s and 70s that wasn't just outstanding.

 

Many thanks to 大块头 for taking the time to do this!

[889]

To flesh this out, here's a brief biography of Lee Pao-chen, courtesy of Google Books:

 

Lee Pao-chen Bio

 

Scroll up a bit and there's also a biography of Fred Wang.

[Shelley]

Thank you for your efforts.