{"id":690,"date":"2007-05-02T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/reviews-of-books-related-to-china-and-linguistics\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:04:11","slug":"reviews-of-books-related-to-china-and-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/reviews-of-books-related-to-china-and-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"reviews of books related to China and linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/\"><em>Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em><\/a> has just released online its first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp008_chinese_book_reviews.pdf\"><strong>compilation of book reviews<\/strong><\/a>. Here is a list of the books discussed. (Note: The links below do not lead to the reviews but to other material.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Invited Reviews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/\">J. Marshall Unger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/fifth_generation.html\"><i>The Fifth Generation Fallacy.<\/i><\/a> Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/\">Wm. C. Hannas<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rejoinder by J. Marshall Unger<\/li>\n<li>Hashimoto Mantaro, Suzuki Takao, and Yamada Hisao. <i>A Decision for the Chinese Nations<\/i> &#8212; <i>Toward the Future of Kanji (Kanji minzoku no ketsudan<\/i> &#8212; <i>Kanji no mirai ni mukete).<\/i> Reviewed by Wm. C. Hannas<\/li>\n<li>S. Robert Ramsey. <i>The Languages of China.<\/i> Reviewed by Wm. C. Hannas<\/li>\n<li>James H. Cole, <i>Shaohsing<\/i>. Reviewed by Mark A. Allee<\/li>\n<li>Henry Hung-Yeh Tiee, <i>A Reference Grammar of Chinese Sentences.<\/i> Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/chinese_morphology.html\">Jerome L. Packard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews by the Editor<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Pollack, <i>The Fracture of Meaning<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jerry Norman, <i>Chinese<\/i><\/li>\n<li>N. H. Leon, <i>Character Indexes of Modern Chinese<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Shiu-ying Hu, comp., <i>An Enumeration of Chinese Materia Medico<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Donald M. Ayers, <i>English Words from Latin and Greek Elements<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chen Gang, comp., A <i>Dictionary of Peking Colloquialisms (Beijing Fangyan Cidian)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Dominic Cheung, <i>ed.<\/i> and <i>tr<\/i>., <i>The Isle Full of Noises<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Chaves, <i>ed.<\/i> and tr., <i>The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Philip R. Bilancia, <i>Dictionary<\/i> of <i>Chinese Law and Government<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Charles O. Hucker, <i>A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Robert K. Logan, <i>The Alphabet Effect<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Liu Zhengtan, Gao Mingkai, et al., comp., <i>A Dictionary of Loan Words and Hybrid Words in Chinese (Hanyu Wailai Cidian)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Mandarin Daily Dictionary of Loan Words (Guoyu Ribao Wailaiyu Cidian)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Shao Xiantu, Zhou Dingguo, et al., comp., <i>A Dictionary of the Origins of Foreign Place Names (Waiguo Diming Yuyuan Cidian)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tsung-tung Chang, <i>Metaphysik, Erkenntnis und Praktische Philosophie um Chuang-Tzu<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Irene Bloom, trans, ed., and intro., <i>Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The<\/i> K&#8217;un-chih chi <i>of Lo Ch&#8217;in-shun<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Research Institute for Language Pedagogy of the Peking College of Languages, comp., <i>Frequency Dictionary of Words in Modern Chinese (Xiandai Hanyu Pinlyu Cidian)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Liu Yuan, chief compiler, <i>Word List of Modern Mandarin (Xianhi Hanyu Cibiao)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Editing Group of <i>A New English-Chinese Dictionary,<\/i> comp., <i>A New English-Chinese Dictionary<\/i><\/li>\n<li>BBC External Business and Development Group, <i>Everyday Mandarin<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is SPP no. 8, from February 1988. 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