[Explanation] Researching Chinese characters with great concentration for more than 50 years, including nearly 100,000 ancient Chinese characters, searching for the past and present for each Chinese character... On September 17, the "Uncle Chinese Characters" studio was unveiled in Nanjing.
[Explanation] Richard Sears, who is over 70 years old, is from the United States. He is one of the first scholars in the world to use modern technology to study the source of Chinese characters. He is affectionately called "Uncle Chinese Characters."
[Concurrent] Richard Sears
When I was about 20 years old, it suddenly occurred to me that I speak English, so I wanted to learn a foreign language and think about the world in a foreign language, so I thought I wanted to learn Chinese.
[Explanation] In the 1990s, he began to use computers to digitize Chinese characters.
The "Chinese Characters Source" website he founded contains nearly 100,000 ancient Chinese glyphs, with users in more than 170 countries and regions around the world.
He made the "pictographic" changes of Chinese characters into lively and interesting animated stories, told the past and present of Chinese characters in an entertaining way, and used technology to make ancient Chinese characters "live".
[Concurrent] Richard Sears
Nowadays, computer technology is more and more advanced. Some software can recognize Chinese characters and then speak. We must use modern technology to learn Chinese and Chinese characters. Now there is AR augmented reality technology.
The character source card (developed by me) can put an original hieroglyph on the back, and the current simplified character in the front, and then use graphics to recognize the hieroglyph, and then put out a 3D space Chinese character evolution (process).
[Explanation] In 2019, Richard Sears came to Nanjing and began to continuously integrate "black technology" into the study of the source culture of Chinese characters.
In 2020, he obtained a foreigner's permanent residence ID card, which relieved him of any worries about studying Chinese characters for his resettlement in China.
[Concurrent] Richard Sears
There was a lady last night, she said, you can speak our Mandarin?
Which is your Mandarin, our Mandarin.
[Explanation] As a part of the introduction of high-level cultural talents (teams) and cultural masters in Nanjing, the "Uncle Chinese Characters" studio provides benefits for attracting high-end cultural talents to set up studios in Nanjing and solve the "difficulties in attracting talents and retaining talents". explore.
[Concurrent] He Yong, former head of the Chinese group of the United Nations
For people whose native language background is English, Chinese is a more difficult language.
How to make the Western world understand the cultural context of Chinese and generate more cultural collisions is an important issue.
First of all, we have to present and express in a Western model and perspective. The research perspective of "Uncle Chinese Characters" is a good example.
Zhang Chuanming reports from Nanjing, Jiangsu
Editor in charge: [Wu Qingcai]