Visible Speech
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 c...
ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary
This dictionary is an expansion of the ""ABC Chinese-English Dictionary"", the first strictly alphabetically ordered and Pinyin computerized dictionary. It contains over 196,000 entries, compared to the 71,486 entries of the ea...
Annotated Quotations from Chairman Mao
Students and teachers will welcome this new addition to the DeFrancis series of Chinese language texts.¿ The famous little red book of Mao Tse-tung's thoughts contains basic ideas that permeate virtually all discussion in China of a wide range of ...
Beginning Chinese Reader, Part 2
This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.¿While continuing to stress the basic importance of the tra...
Beginning Chinese Reader, Part 1
This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.¿ While continuing to stress the basic importance of the tr...
Intermediate Chinese Reader, Part I
The general approach in writing this text is the same as that in Beginning Chinese Reader.¿ It is discussed in some detail in the introduction to that work.¿ Salient features include:1) Selection of characters on the basis of frequency;2) Provisio...
Intermediate Chinese
This text is the second in a series of three closely integrated volumes of spoken Chinese for use at the high-school and college levels.¿ Intermediate Chinese presents dialogues on everyday topics together with analysis of anticipated points of di...
Character Text for Intermediate Chinese
Character Text for Intermediate Chinese
Character Text for Advanced Chinese
Character Text for Advanced Chinese
Character Text for Beginning Chinese
Character Text for Beginning Chinese
Advanced Chinese Reader
A sequel to "Beginning Chinese Reader" and "Intermediate Chinese Reader," this text, the eleventh volume in a series produced under the auspices of Seton Hall University, is closely correlated with the author's "Advanced C...
Advanced Chinese
Designed to be used after either Beginning or Intermediate Chinese, this work is based on recordings of twenty lectures on academic topics in pinyin Romanization.¿ The new material in each lesson is presented in illustrative sentences and dialogue...
