Interview with ShaoLan Hsueh
summary
Describes a concrete method that uses software to decompose thousands of characters and prioritize core building blocks so learners can recombine a few elements to read many more characters, developed to teach British-born children who initially couldn’t read Chinese and reported to work in practice. Explains cultural content encoded in glyphs (woman as a kneeling figure, pig under a roof = home) and notes involvement with Oxford business school and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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