The only clever and reliable analysis of chinese characters, based upon oracle bones inscriptions and bronzes variants (all other texts on this subject just repeat the first chinese etymological dictionnary of Xu Shen, written 2000 years ago, which didn't know the most ancient forms of sinograms, carved on oracle bones and tortoise shells, discovered during 20th century), by a philosopher, professor at Paris 8 University, who decided to study chinese. That makes the difference: Kyril RYJIK is not a sinologist who decided he was a philosopher. This Book 1 is no longer available, the author preparing a new edition completely revised, taking quite a long time... Book 2, totally different (analysis of characters from a text of Sima Qian) is easy to find in any bookshop.