THIS CHINESE-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY IS THE AUTHORIZED REVISION AND EXPANSION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT DICTIONARY OF 1945. IT WAS PRIMARILY WRITTEN FOR USE BY STUDENTS OF COLLOQUIAL MANDARIN ON THE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AND SERVES AS A TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS AND AS A GENERAL GRAMMATICAL REFERENCE GUIDE…

This book, compiled by six practicing teachers of Chinese, is designed to provide supplementary work for regular textbooks such as "Speak Chinese,""Speak Mandarin," and "Modern Chinese," and hopefully to help the teacher to avoid the monotony and boredom of much drill practice by providing a greater variety of material for drill purposes. It…

Recounts observations and experiences made while on an educational junket to Peking, Canton, and Shanghai. (RL)

Reports on a study to determine whether students of Chinese read faster when the text is written in characters than when written in Romanization. Results show reading efficiency as determined by speed and errors in translation to be greater with Romanization, while there is more overall accuracy with characters. (CLK)

This textbook presents the study of Chinese through the use of English grammar in the hopes of moderating the extremes of the direct method and of structural analysis. It is intended to cover a one-year course, or six semester hours of introductory Chinese. The book contains 16 lessons, of which the first seven use romanized phonetic forms and…