KanjiHanzi Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:21 AM Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:21 AM Hello all, Life is bitter: My wife and daughter will go to Beijing on Sunday, stay there for THREE NIGHTS while I sit here at home studying Mandarin until my eyes and ears bleed :-) REVENGE: I will send the gals out shopping, but it's pretty useless sitting in Europe trying to figure out where good shops for anything related to writing pretty Hanzi could be located. I have three categories on my shopping list: 1) Good fountain pens used by Chinese writers. (BTW is there a Chinese equivalent to penji in Japan? i.e the art of writing great calligraphic characters using a PEN. Even a pencil, but that probably doesn't count as Real Penji.) 2) Model books. Once again I am not sure about what they could be called in China, but every bookstore in Japan has tons of them, I've been told. There surely must be a lot stuff produced China too. I want both "penji models" as well as an assortment of various styles of traditional Brush Work. 3) Traditional Brush stuff, including all related items like papaer weights etc. Hopefully this could be found in ONE shop, but it's OK with three different shops unless they aren't far away from each other. They are going to stay at a boring western SAS hotel in what I assume is central Beijing. I can get the address if it can be of any help. Addresses to shops is alos necessary, if possible. I've been looking for stuff like this a long time - years - so any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED! Thanks in advance, Kanji Hanzi Quote
KanjiHanzi Posted January 3, 2009 at 04:40 AM Author Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 04:40 AM This is just a desperate attempt to get at least one of the most desirable books printed: The Green/Blue Goddesses English-Japanese/Japanese-English dictionaries. They are 18900 yen (US$210 today) each if you buy them from Amazon.co.jp On top of that you have to add the shipping from Japan which is now FedEx/DHL/whatever Express only and cost a fortune that too. It would be SO SWEET if it could be found in Beijing for a Nice Price with no shipping added. I really don't have any hope about this dream, but .... Any ideas re how to find out? I have searched on the ISBN numbers and looked for Chinese sites, but so far no luck. Quote
KanjiHanzi Posted January 3, 2009 at 05:32 AM Author Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 05:32 AM Good news: Some extremely kind soul posted this link somewhere around here http://www.hisnibs.com/ WOW!!! All my fountain pen needs for the rest of my life is fixed. At one spot on the net. No need to worry about my wife/daughter not having time to search in Beijing! Quote
KanjiHanzi Posted January 3, 2009 at 08:08 AM Author Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 08:08 AM I've set the staff at the hotel in Beijing working so they will take care of this "problem" Quote
gato Posted January 3, 2009 at 09:05 AM Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 09:05 AM Model handwriting books are called "字帖". You can see many of them here on this online bookstore: http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=9250461 多功能3500常用汉字钢笔行楷字帖 Quote
KanjiHanzi Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM Author Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM Excellent, Gato! I will simply write out this page for my wife/daughter to show when they get to the book store. Thanks! Quote
Hofmann Posted January 3, 2009 at 08:04 PM Report Posted January 3, 2009 at 08:04 PM Uhh...I don't know about penji, but maybe you're talking about 硬筆書法. This site's full of it. These forums also. These forums specialize in fountain pens. Quote
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