Language books from Bored Feet Press

Understanding Chinese Characters by their Ancestral Forms, 4th edition

by Ping-gam Go

This handy book reveals the meaning of Chinese characters through their ancestral forms. Readers will discover that it takes little effort and imagination to understand the common and widely used characters.

What Character Is That?, 2nd edition
An Easy-Access Dictionary of 5,000 Chinese Characters

by Ping-gam Go

A Chinese dictionary for the Western mind. The unique feature of this dictionary is its arrangement: first by the English word of the character’s root or “radical,” and then by the number of strokes.

Understanding Kanji Characters by their Ancestral Forms
Learning Kanji through Pictures

by Ping-gam Go

This handy book includes a full lesson plan to learn written Japanese. it analyzes 313 Kanji characters by revealing the hidden art, myth, and culture within the characters of the written language through ancestral forms.