My good friend Jim, known to many through his blogs Beijing Boyce (the guide to the bars of Beijing — and lots of restaurants there as well) and Grape Wall of China (for China’s wine scene), has a new site focusing on books about or touching upon China.
He asked me to contribute my list of the top five romanization-related books in English. I cheated some, such as by leaving out Palmer’s The Principles of Romanization, with Special Reference to the Romanization of Japanese, which is difficult to find, somewhat outdated, and doesn’t focus much on Sinitic languages; and by including other works primarily in romanized Mandarin.
But it’s a start.
To see my list and lots of others, go to China Book Bites (a.k.a. Chuānchuànr).
I have always enjoyed reading books and as a westerner trying to learn chinese, i think that by reading books it will become easier to learn the Chinese language. Thank you for the recommendation.