This university independent course of study of Chinese civilization uses a non-disciplinary approach for the purpose of catching a glimpse of what the preponderant body of Chinese have thought and valued throughout the ages. The literature is approached from a Chinese point of view. The course consists of nine lessons: (1) Mencius, (2)Confucius,…

Since the 17th century, Chinese lexicography has been dominated by a character classification system divided into 214 radical groups. The proposed initial three-stroke system would eliminate the need to select (or guess) the proper radical and count strokes. The aim of the system is to facilitate the use of dictionaries and provide the student…

This ungraded, annotated bibliography includes books of biography, history and society, culture, and literature. Filmstrips, study prints, slides and films are listed in the section of audio-visual materials. Also included is a list of sources of books and audio-visual materials that are included in a multi-media package on China used in the…

This issue of the Language by Radio Interest Group newsletter contains: an article by Paul A. Gaeng on his experience as a radio listener, an article by Richard E. Wood on "Radio Peking," and a partial reprint of frequency listings from the January 1976 number. Gaeng reports that, when he was a student in Geneva, he developed skills as a…

This article describes the activities of the Chinese-English Translation Assistance Group (CETA), including the development of a dictionary of general terms, and the formation of files of colloquial, scientific, and technical terms. CETA also serves as a clearinghouse for information of interest to students of Chinese. (CLK)

Personal impressions of the editor of "Science" of a three-week visit to the Peoples Republic of China are presented. (BB)

Personal impressions of a three-week visit to the Peoples Republic of China are presented. (BB)

Personal impressions of a three-week visit to the Peoples Republic of China are presented.

The Socialist Revolution has brought dramatic changes in Chinese social institutions. This paper investigates how older Chinese have fared in this massive reorganization of Chinese society. The study concludes that the aged have largely maintained their traditionally high status in both the countryside and the urban sector. (Author)

In this review of Gamberg's book, the differences in educational philosophy between China and Canada are brought out, emphasizing the ways in which inculcation of competitiveness and individualism in Canada promotes capitalism while inculcation of cooperation in China promotes a different set of values. (Author/MC)

Summaries are reported of papers presented at a symposium on Chinese linguistics held in July 1977 at the University of Hawaii. Topics of the program were: semantics and functions, syntactic relations, diachronic phonology, synchronic phonology and phonetics, and aspect and time relations. (SW)

The residents of San Francisco's Chinatown demonstrate the consequences of a substantial number of economic and social ills reflecting the history of the Chinese-Americans and the orientation of American society towards them. (Author/MH)

Offers a report on a January 1987 colloquium on moral cognition in Chinese culture. Calls for creative teamwork on longitudinal interviews to gain a more exact picture of moral development structures in non-western cultures such as Taiwan. (BSR)

The prosodic features of maternal speech to infants were measured quantitatively in a tonal language, Mandarin Chinese, to determine whether the features were similar to those observed in nontonal languages such as English and German. The pattern of results for Mandarin motherese was similar to that reported for other languages. (PCB)

Examined the effects of unemployment on the discomfort level of providing financial support and housing for a group of Midwestern Chinese-American elderly. Married, employed females were more likely to give money to their parents and in-laws than single, unemployed respondents. One spouse's discomfort in meeting such needs affected the discomfort…