Reading and Writing Chinese
by McNaughton, WilliamFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-03-01
Publisher(s): Tuttle Pub
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Author Biography
William McNaughton was the founding teacher of Chinese at Oberlin College, one of the best known American undergraduate programs in Chinese. Since 1986 he has taught at Hong Kong's City University, where he was the founding program leader of the BA (Honours) in Translation and Interpretation. He is the author of numerous books and journal articles on Chinese literature and language Li Ying was born in Beijing. She has a BA from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and an MA from Middlebury College. She has taught at Beijing's Capital Normal University and now teaches at Hong Kong University
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Revised Edition | p. 7 |
| Preface | p. 9 |
| Student's Guide | p. 12 |
| The Writing System | p. 12 |
| Explanatory Notes | p. 15 |
| How to Write the Characters | p. 24 |
| The Pronunciation of Chinese | p. 27 |
| 1,062 Basic Characters and Elements of the Writing System | p. 31 |
| Remaining Characters of the "1,020 List" and the "2,000 List" | p. 245 |
| Alphabetical Index | p. 304 |
| Stroke Count-Stroke Order Index | p. 326 |
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