Genesis

1972

Orientation on China and Chinese script

 

1973

First boring endless punishment lines; character learning by infinite copying, the current way of learning

 

1974

Discovery and study of Wieger, etymological source: a relief for my curiosity

1975

Lost in the forest of character defining methods

1976

Preparation for a dissertation. Being an endless way for a book read by nobody plus one, he shortcut this way. Decision: popular coffee table book

1977

Search of more sources. Discovery of many in London, Guong Hua

 

1978

First design of a systematical logical encyclopedia

1979

More formulas elaborated for a new book to learn characters

1982

Dip. Deep one. Face in the mid by exhaustion

1983

Revival. Decision to build an auxiliary language.
Pu-language and formulas

   

1984

First 2000 pages sketched, based on about 20 sources

 

1985

First illustrations by myself and by Ludy van Huffel. Lectures at several art academies

 

1993

Decision to add adorning texts

 

1994

Headache on layout models

 

1997

Elmar, publisher of the first book, solved the problem.
A compromise

 

1998

First edition in Dutch

   

2001

Definite new layout, based on my intuition

 

2001

Definite new layout, based on my intuition
Shape of an anchor, this is ‘hope’

 

2002

Churning out 24 characterpages a month in English

 

2005

Preparations for volume II and III started

 

2006

First volume in English completed, 675 characters treated

 
Totally 17 generations of manuscripts