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The threshold
What this language does
No conjugation, no agreement, no grammatical tense: Chinese says when through context and aspect markers. What it saves on grammar it invests in writing — one sign per word, and a story inside each sign.
The untranslatable
The force that brings two people together — chance seen as an old debt.
Hello
你好 · nǐ hǎo
“you good” — two characters, no verb at all
Work in progress
The character as unit of meaning and as image. How to read a poem whose visual shape is part of the text.
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