David Moser

David Moser holds a master’s degree and a PhD from the University of Michigan. He has been in Beijing for 30 years, teaching linguistics at various universities and US study abroad programs. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Associate Dean of the Yenching Academy at Peking University. Moser is author of the book A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language (Penguin, 2016). He is currently Associate Professor in the Foreign Languages Department of Beijing Capital Normal University.

Via: Character Amnesia in China https://globalchinapulse.net/character-amnesia-in-china/

• Victor Mair Because of their complexity and multiplicity, writing Chinese characters correctly is a highly neuromuscular task. One simply has to Practice them hundreds and hundreds of times to master them. And, as with playing a musical instrument like a violin or a piano, one must practice writing them regularly or one’s control over them will simply evaporate.