Examines why Chinese undergraduates perform better on an eight-item water-level task (WLT) than do U.S. undergraduates. Results suggest that the combined effect of writing Chinese characters and strong mathematical training in geometry contributes significantly to skills necessary to master the WLT. (MMU)

A LISREL model incorporating both social and psychological factors was used to explain Chinese and American college students' suicide ideation. In both Chinese and American samples, females scored higher on the ideation scale than males. The overall rate is lower for the Chinese, however. Supports previous research. Offers a comparison of…

Indicates that writing Chinese is correlated to Chinese-American (CA) students' spatial skills and investigates whether writing Chinese would have the same relationship to mathematics skills. Suggested a strong correlation between writing Chinese and success on SAT-Math. Supports the cultural relativity theory of gender difference on SAT-Math.…

This bibliography is an effort to establish a convenient listing of works in Chinese which deal with any of the various aspects of Tai linguistics. There are 50 entries including cross-references. Some of the sources covered are: Academia Sinica, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Institute of History and Philology, Yu-yen…

THIS TEXT IS WRITTEN WITH CHINESE IDEOGRAPHS. FOR THE GLOSSARY TO THE TEXT SEE ED 010 341. (GC)

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND ITS DIALECTS ARE DESCRIBED. (THIS REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

THIS REPORT CONTAINS A LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LANGUAGES OF THE CHINA-TIBET-BURMA REGION OF ASIA, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE MIAO-YAO LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE CHINESE DIALECTS. (THE REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

THE LANGUAGES OF THE TIBETAN FAMILY PROPER ARE LISTED AND DESCRIBED. (THIS REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

LISTINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LANGUAGES OF THE CHINA-TIBET-BURMA REGION OF ASIA ARE PRESENTED. (THIS REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

This history of a London Missionary Society member's contributions to typography development in China highlights selection of 3,000 Chinese characters needed for purpose of printing Christian books, production of temporary font from wooden blocks, and use of European methods of punches and matrices to produce permanent metal font. (Twenty-seven…

Describes the meanings of question forms in Mandarin Chinese in different syntactic contexts. It is shown that the "wh" question words and other question forms have specific meanings in specific environments. (EKN)

Describes China's social, agricultural, and industrial growth since 1949. Particularly discusses education in China today. (JOW)

Repetition blindness (RB) refers to the failure to detect the second occurrence of a repeated item in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). In two experiments using RSVP, the ability to report two critical characters was found to be impaired when these two characters were identical (Experiment 1) or similar by sharing one repeated component…

The study explores the notion that some Chinese characters contain pictorial indications of meanings that can be used to help retrieve the referent. Thirty adults with no prior knowledge of Chinese guessed the meanings of twenty Chinese characters by choosing between one of two photographs. Half of the characters were considered to be iconic and…