Presents a system for quick conversion of Chinese cyclical-binary dates to western year dates. (CHK)

Part of a panel discussion on the modern Japanese novelist presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies on March 29, 1972, in New York, New York. (DS)

Various types of pirated Chinese books are given with specific examples. The basic steps followed for the proper identification of these books is described, and remedies suggested in case the original is discovered after the book has been cataloged according to the information given by the book pirate. (13 references) (Author/NH)

The redundancy of some English grammatical elements is illustrated by comparisons with similar Chinese constructions. (RD)

Modal verbs in Chinese are characterized in terms of internal and external modality; the former defines a state a noun is in or a quality a noun has while the latter defines a circumstantial factor that affects an event. Modal verbs and their compounds are contrasted in Mandarin and Amoy dialects. (Author/PJM)

Research was conducted among 70 Chinese speakers to measure the degrees of reciprocity, solidarity, and inequality in dyadic address exchanges. The results provided support for extending Brown's allegedly universal Invariant Norm of Address to Chinese usage. (Author/GC)

States that "Ren," the first Chinese "manifesto of egalitarianism," written in 1896-97, was an important spiritual contribution to the republican movement toward the end of China's last imperial dynasty. Argues that the persuasiveness of its nontraditional egalitarian argument is explained by the writer's skills in exploiting…

Investigates the way native Chinese speakers process Chinese and Western numerals. Finds they process the numerals differently and that they processed Western numerals differently than native English speakers do. Concludes that Chinese and Western numerals are not a homogeneous set of stimuli. (RS)

A controversial best-selling Chinese novel of the mid-1980s is discussed in terms of the main character's antiheroic qualities, the narrator's ambivalent voice, and the interplay between sexual impotence and cultural regression. (18 references) (LB)

Reports on attempts to reconstruct the Proto-Chinese sound system, based on linguistic data from modern Chinese dialects rather than ancient rhyme dictionaries and tables, resulting in a sound system with 29 onsets and 74 rhymes and some new rules for sound changes. (18 references) (Author/CB)

Comments on previous articles (this issue) by Solberg et al., Tata and Leong, and Lin on help-seeking behaviors of Asian Americans. Sees articles as dispelling false images and stereotypes about mental health needs of Asian Americans. Suggests that future research focus on diversity of Asian American population and development of theories and…

Describes three examples illustrating the nature and extent of contact-induced change in the Linxia dialect, relating to extensive lexicosemantic diffusion resulting in areal convergence, coexisting markers representing two different types of borrowing, and a postpositional conditional marker as an example of significant syntactic and phonological…

Critiques Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier-scope interpretations in English, Chinese, and Japanese, showing serious theoretical problems with their results and proposing a quantifier-scope analysis that avoids those problems. The proposed expert system considers several important considerations and arrives at a composite…