Article explained the tense and ambivalent relationship between two world powers which influences all aspects of Chinese life, even a university seminar. (Editor/RK)

Author used her childhood memories to help her kindergartners in Honolulu, Hawaii, many of whom are Chinese, to further understand and enjoy the Chinese New Year and its customs. Perhaps her experiences will become a springboard for individual or group investigations of other ethnic-centered festivals. (Editor/RK)

Presents 10 photos and a narrative depicting the culture of a remote village in Shanzi province, 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Provides information for obtaining additional print and audiovisual material on this village. (JDH)

Provides an annotated list of print and audiovisual materials which will support teaching about China at the elementary and secondary levels. (JDH)

Presented data on the translation and on the reliability and concurrent validity of the Chinese version of the Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL). Reliability and validity coefficients are significant and of sufficient magnitude to warrant their use in research (N=37).(Author)

Four different methods of arranging Chinese-language author-title catalogs were compared in terms of the amount of information required to locate entries. The results of the study reinforce the current trend toward the strictly alphabetical arrangement of Chinese-language library catalogs on the basis of Romanized entries. (JB)

Bibliography includes the best English language sources for the study of Far Eastern art. (Author/RK)

This paper comments on four preceeding papers in this volume, presented as part of a panel discussion. The author notes his points of approval and disagreement with the papers. (CHK)

Studied the early literacy practices of a 3-year-old Chinese girl in her family restaurant in an underprivileged community in Canada. The literacy practices indicate that home contexts have a role in shaping emergent literacy. Discusses implications for teaching minority children. (SLD)

Discusses the use of text retrieval methods based on probabilistic models with Chinese language material, which are modeled on the Okapi information retrieval system. Topics include system architecture, test collections, weighting functions, and algorithms. (Author/LRW)

Gives a brief history of the causes for the emergence of translation as a key to national survival and cultural change in China. Focuses on three significant translation phenomena: the role of translation as a vehicle for cultural change; the phenomenon of translating out of the mother tongue; and the relationship between translation and learning…

Discusses the role of imagination in Chinese culture and literature. Notes that Chinese children's literature has begun to deviate from themes of obedience and conformity, instead emphasizing themes of imagination and initiative. Lists several traditional Chinese stories translated into English. (MM)

Addresses "ziji," notorious long-distance reflexive in Chinese, which can take antecedent infinitively far away. Argues that theories concerned with anaphoric properties should be formed and evaluated on basis of following observations: no barriers can block anaphoric relation; and subjects of any clauses containing reflexive are its…

Deals with a major difference between European languages and Chinese, namely the sparse use of anaphoric reference in Chinese. Suggests that the translator's way of rendering references will affect the interpretational potential of the text in the target language. (NKA)

Argues that the contribution of pragmatics to anaphora is much more fundamental than has been commonly believed, at least with respect to languages such as Chinese. A pragmatic theory is presented of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature, and an overview is provided of the latest developments of Grice's theory of…