Dissecting the written word
By Yang Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2016-09-14 07:10
Cecilia Lindqvist, who was in Beijing to receive the Special Book Award of China, speaks of her love for written Chinese characters, the guqin and experiences on the mainland. Yang Yang reports.
When a friend, a middle-aged Chinese man from Xi'an, heard that I was going to meet Cecilia Lindqvist in Beijing last month, he told me to thank her because both his children grew up reading Characters Kingdom.
The 84-year-old Swedish Sinologist was in Beijing to receive the Special Book Award of China.
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