{"id":5495,"date":"2012-02-25T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2018-08-28T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T09:08:04","slug":"remembering-y-r-chao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2012\/remembering-y-r-chao\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Y.R. Chao: 1892-1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; width: 200px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/gwoyeu_romatzyh\/yr-chao.jpg\" alt=\"Y.R. Chao\" style=\"width: 195px; display: block;\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: smaller; font-weight: bold;\">Y.R. Chao<br \/>November 3, 1892 \u2013 February 25, 1982<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today, the thirtieth anniversary of the death of the brilliant linguist and all-around interesting guy Y.R. Chao (Zhao Yuanren \/ Zh&#224;o Yu&#225;nr&#232;n \/ &#36249;&#20803;&#20219; \/ &#36213;&#20803;&#20219;), I&#8217;m remembering him by rereading some of his work. (Chao died twenty years and one day after his good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2012\/remembering-hu-shih\/\" title=\"Hu Shi\">Hu Shih<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are some readings here on Pinyin.info by or about Y.R. Chao that you may wish to review: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/zhao_yuanren\/chinese_romanization.html\">Responses to objections to romanization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/alice\/humpty_dumpty_chinese.html\">Y.R. Chao&#8217;s Mandarin translation (in Gwoyeu Romatzyh) of the Humpty Dumpty section of <em>Through the Looking-Glass<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/interviews-with-yr-chao\/\">Interviews with Y.R. Chao<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/roots-of-the-stone-lions-story\/\">Roots of the stone lions story<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/gwoyeu_romatzyh\/spelling.html\">Basic spelling conventions of Gwoyeu Romatzyh (<span class=\"py\">Gu&#243;y&#468; Lu&#243;m&#462;z&#236;<\/span> \/ &#22283;&#35486;&#32645;&#39340;&#23383; \/ &#22269;&#35821;&#32599;&#39532;&#23383;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/gwoyeu_romatzyh\/basic.html\">Chart comparing Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Hanyu Pinyin<\/a>, alphabetized by GR first tone<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/yr-chao-works-being-reissued\/\">Y.R. Chao works being reissued<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/DeFr1950.html\">One State, One People, One Language<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y.R. ChaoNovember 3, 1892 \u2013 February 25, 1982 Today, the thirtieth anniversary of the death of the brilliant linguist and all-around interesting guy Y.R. Chao (Zhao Yuanren \/ Zh&#224;o Yu&#225;nr&#232;n \/ &#36249;&#20803;&#20219; \/ &#36213;&#20803;&#20219;), I&#8217;m remembering him by rereading some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2012\/remembering-y-r-chao\/\">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":[12,95,615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-linguistics","category-yr-chao-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","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=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}