{"id":1021,"date":"2007-12-06T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T05:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/du-ponceau-online\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T14:46:14","slug":"du-ponceau-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/du-ponceau-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Ponceau online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinyin Info has long made available a <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/duponceau.html\">selection from Peter S. Du Ponceau&#8217;s groundbreaking work on the nature of Chinese characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google Print now offers the <em>complete<\/em> text of this book: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=eF8EAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover\"><em>A dissertation on the nature and character of the Chinese system of writing<\/em><\/a>. (Also available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/pdf\/A_dissertation_on_the_nature_and_charact.pdf?id=eF8EAAAAQAAJ&#038;output=pdf&#038;sig=kYO5NsYfK2A4s_yqjf_tWPgGI_s\">14.3 MB PDF<\/a>.) This was first published in 1838; and if more people had paid attention to it the <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/ideographic_myth.html\">ideographic myth<\/a> might well have perished then instead of flourishing to continue to plague us today. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a fuller version of the title: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing, in a Letter to John Vaughan, esq &#8230; To which are Subjoined, a Vocabulary of the Cochinchinese Language by Father Joseph Morrone, R.C. Missionary at Saigon, &#8230; And a Cochinchinese and Latin Dictionary, in Use Among the R.C. Missions in Cochinchina.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Du Ponceau also did important work on some Native American languages and served as president of the American Philosophical Society for seventeen years. That organization continues its tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amphilsoc.org\/members\/2007NewMembersPR.doc\">inducting distinguished members<\/a> (MS Word document). <\/p>\n<p>Alternate versions of Du Ponceau&#8217;s name: Peter Stephen DuPonceau and Pierre-Etienne Du Ponceau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinyin Info has long made available a selection from Peter S. Du Ponceau&#8217;s groundbreaking work on the nature of Chinese characters. Google Print now offers the complete text of this book: A dissertation on the nature and character of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/du-ponceau-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,92,28,95,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-dictionary","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}