Ideograms in China

by Henri Michaux and Gustaf Sobin

Allen Ginsberg called Michaux a genius, and Jorge Luis Borges said that his work is without equal in the literature of our time. Henri Michaux (1899-1984) wrote Ideograms in China as an introduction to Leon Chang's La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work that now stands as an important complement to Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa's classic study, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. Previously available only as a limited edition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214907
• ISBN13: 9780811214902
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 9.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 7.6"