Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Harbin's Ice Festival

The city of Harbin in northern China is famous for a) being very, very cold in winter and b) their famous Ice & Snow Festival, where huge sculptures are carved out of ice and illuminated...

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The story of Hanzi (1 to 4 strokes)

This is a series of videos showing how some of the basic Chinese characters were created.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Introduction to Chinese characters

This video is pretty intense, but lots of great information about how Chinese characters work.