Presents data on the translation, reliability, concurrent validity, and norms of the Spanish, Hebrew, and Chinese versions of three equivalent forms of the Depression Adjective Check Lists, compared with the English version. Reliability estimates for the four versions were quite similar in magnitude. (NRB)

Describes a technique used in an English composition course to encourage student experimentation with different language choices. The students are given a Chinese poem, along with a romanized pronunciation and dictionary translation of each character. They are then instructed to write a few sentences in English conveying the poem's message. (SED)

Attempts to determine (1) the number and nature of perceptual dimensions of tone in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese listeners; (2) to what extent individual differences in tone perception are influenced by a Chinese listener's language background, and (3) whether differences in perceptual saliency of dimensions across Chinese languages can be…

Presents a historical account of health care and services in the San Francisco Chinatown community. Reports on a study of current health status and health service utilization among Chinatown residents, which found that, despite marked improvements in health services, a disproportionate number of Chinatown residents reported low health status. (KH)

Presents a guide to materials available for the study of China. (TO)

Proposes to demonstrate that the Qieyun language, long used as the basis for Chinese dialectal comparison, is an inadequate basis for explaining the tonal evolution of some of the Min dialects; research supported by the U.S. Office of Education and the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University. (RS)

Research supported by a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley. (RS)

Librarians wishing to check over their books on China should turn to the China section of the Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print'' (1971). The 26 references in the bibliography presented here may be helpful. All the books mentioned, except one, were published in the 1960's and 1970's. (Author/NH)

Compilation supported by the National Science Foundation. (VM)

The author feels that considering the current world situation, the government's reduction of funds for Asian studies was unwarranted. (PG)

Paper delivered at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in New York, New York, March 29, 1972. (DS)

Defends the direct method in teaching Chinese. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, November 27, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)