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John DeFrancis (1911-2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works - the landmark ABC Chinese-English Dictionary and his myth-busting The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy among them - changed perceptions of Mandarin and the way it was taught.DeFrancis overcame a poor childhood - his Italian immigrant father was a laborer who died when DeFrancis was very young and his mother was illiterate - to attend Yale, where he...

John DeFrancis (1911-2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works - the landmark ABC Chinese-English Dictionary and his myth-busting The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy among them - changed perceptions of Mandarin and the way it was taught.DeFrancis overcame a poor childhood - his Italian immigrant father was a laborer who died when DeFrancis was very young and his mother was illiterate - to attend Yale, where he...

This character version of Beginning Chinese has been prepared for use by both students and teachers. It can function as the starting point in the study of Chinese, as an introduction to characters after the same material has been mastered in transcript form, or as a supplement to Beginning Chinese Reader. (The latter, now in preparation, is designed specifically as a reader and hence is based on quite different principles.)

A complete revision of the first volume in the Yale Linguistic Series, this new version, in "pinyin" romanization, and aimed at secondary school and college levels, is an introduction to spoken Chinese. It includes dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, examples of characters, substitution drills, and miscellaneous exercises in the form of games like crossword puzzles. There is a combined glossary-index, supplementary vo...

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An expansion of the "ABC Chinese-English Dictionary", this alphabetically ordered dictionary of Chinese contains over 196, 000 entries.

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Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pictographic, ideographic, logographic, or morphemic, and defends his conclusion that because of these misrepresentations, the nature of all writing c...

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The "ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary (ECCE)" is a student-oriented bilingual dictionary that organizes Chinese words by their pronunciation as written in pinyin. This innovative, straightforward alphabetical organization allows the user to find most words more quickly and easily.

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