Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by Li Chin-Shi and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by Chin-Shi Li and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language English Translation written by Jinxi Li and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the phonetics and sounds of the Chinese language. Based on the official phonetic system published by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1982, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the sounds and tones used in Mandarin Chinese. With detailed explanations and examples, including a comparison to the International Phonetic Alphabet, this book is an invaluable tool for Chinese language learners, linguists, and anyone interested in the sounds of language. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by Li Chi Shi and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1922 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Li Chi Shi. Chinese Phonetic System And Language: (English Translation). Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Li Chi Shi. Chinese Phonetic System And Language: (English Translation), . Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1922. Subject: Chinese Language

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by Li Chin-Shi and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinese Phonetic System and Language: English Translation Chinese Phonetic System and Language: English Translation was written by Li Chin-Shi in 1922. This is a 71 page book, containing 22957 words and 7 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by Li Chin-Shi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Phonological History of Chinese written by Zhongwei Shen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological systems over the past 2500 years. It will be a key reference work for historical linguists and phonologists in general, as well as being of particular interest to students and scholars of Chinese/Asian languages and their history.

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by By Li Chin-shi and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Chinese Phonetic Notation written by Yong Chun Zhong and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Zhong has invented a new and fun way to learn how to pronounce all Chinese characters without using any alien phonetic symbols such as pinyin. Using conversations, proverbs, songs and stories as examples, Dr Zhong also demonstrates how easily to master the 37 Chinese characters used as the phonetic notation in this book while providing a practical learning strategy to satisfy your individual learning need.Drawing from his own experiences in teaching and speaking bilingually, Dr Zhong makes learning this popular but complex language much easier than using conventional methods and allows the learner to independently explore the intrinsic harmony of the Chinese language. * A breakthrough in teaching and learning the Chinese language. * With only 37 commonly used Chinese characters, you can easily work out the pronunciation of any Chinese character.* You will be able to learn both the pronunciation and the meaning of Chinese words at the same time by focusing on written Chinese.* It is revealed that every Chinese character is phonetically related to other characters, allowing direct trial-and-error learning.* A truly generative learning method to master Chinese independently.* The character-based phonetic notation is as natural as the phonetic indicators originally used to create the majority of Chinese characters.* For the first time, a practical learning strategy will enable you to plan which Chinese characters should be studied at any stage.* By using the 2,500 commonly used characters selected in this book, you will be able to read aloud and understand over 98% of the content in Chinese publications. * A self-sufficient handbook for all you need to master the Chinese language.

Download or read book A Brief History of the Chinese Language III written by Xi Xiang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the third volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical system of Modern Chinese and phonetical changes from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese. Chinese language history is generally split into three phases: (1) Old Chinese, the form of the Chinese language spoken between the 18th century BCE and the 3rd century CE, (2) Middle Chinese, between the 4th century CE to around the 12th century CE, and (3) Modern Chinese, since the 13th century. This volume studies the phonetical systems of Modern Chinese, including the initials system, vowel final system, nasal final system, entering final system, and tonal system. The author discusses the distinct change of these systems from the period of Middle Chinese to that of Modern Chinese and studies the formation of the standard pronunciation of the common language of the modern Han nation. This comprehensive groundwork on Chinese phonetical history will be a must read for scholars and student studying Chinese language, linguistics, and especially for beginning learners of Modern Chinese phonetics.

Download or read book CHINESE PHONETIC SYSTEM LANG written by Alexander R. MacKenzie and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Kingdom of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by 黎錦熙 and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Brief History of the Chinese Language II written by Xi Xiang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the second volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical systems of Middle Chinese and phonetical changes from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese. Chinese language history is generally split into three phases: (1) Old Chinese, the form of the Chinese language spoken between the 18th century BCE and the 3rd century CE; (2) Middle Chinese, between the 4th century CE to around the 12th century CE; and (3) Modern Chinese, since the 13th century. This volume studies the phonological system of Middle Chinese, including the initials system, finals system, and tonal system, examining the evolution of these systems from the period of Old Chinese to that of Middle Chinese. This comprehensive groundwork on Chinese phonetical history will be a must read for scholars and students studying Chinese language, linguistics and, especially, for beginning learners of Middle Chinese phonetics.

Download or read book Beginner s Chinese written by Yong Ho and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to Mandarin Chinese is designed for those with little or no prior experience in the language.

Download or read book Chinese Phonetic System and Language written by Chin-shi Li and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: