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Beijing 22nd July 2010


Biffing busily about Beijing on a bike:


Explaining the journey from pictograms to ideograms to the modern and simplified Chinese characters


That’s enough brushes, ed.


Where the brushes are made …


Goodness …

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Brushes in a calligraphy shop …



Beijing Centre for the Performing Arts – again taken from a car.



Joy. 2 hours with 106 yr old Zhou Youguang deviser of pinyin. What a man. Never stopped laughing.


I think I’m in China –

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