Author's Note
Regarding the Chinese Ideograms That Appear in This Book
The ideograms for the eight disciplines in this book would make sense to all those who have learned Chinese characters in the traditional way. Simplified Chinese characters no longer contain some of these thousand-year-old concepts which have been embedded or have grown out of the Chinese language.
Chinese Title | 超越創新 | Chāoyuè Chuangxin (Beyond Innovation) |
Innovation | 創新軟力 | Chuangxin Ruanli |
Discipline | 技巧 | Jì Qio |
Listen | 聽 | Ting |
Lead | 領 | Ling |
Position | 計 | Jì |
Promote | 提 | Ti |
Connect | 連 | Lian |
Commit | 承 | Cheng |
Execute | 行 | |
Evolve | 變 | Bian |
Whenever a Chinese character appears, it is followed by a Romanization according to the pinyin system, now officially used worldwide. It is not a phonetic system, nor a strict Romanization system. It uses the Roman alphabet to stand for sounds or groups of sounds that exist in China but perhaps not elsewhere. Certain letters deemed “underused” were assigned to stand for a group of sounds. For example, the underused letter “x” was drafted to stand for “hs,” while underused “q” takes on the burden to stand for “ch.” Economy is a virtue. When language is involved, clarity is perhaps more important than economy. Throughout the work, traditional Chinese characters are used. Traditional Chinese characters evolved over thousands of years from inscriptions with sharp implements onto oracle bones. These evolved into slightly ...
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