As an artist, this is one of the many great inventions that Xu Bing has created. In the first image, all the Chinese looking characters are consist of a English word, the book (second image) is a learning book ( like Zi Tie) that artist has created to teach westerner to learn Chinese calligraphy. (right page of the book shows the basic Latin letters, such A X K R F O U N W M I T L C E).