What is Chinese?

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Edited by Shaozhong Liu
Created 1998-08-28, lastupdated 2005-06-21

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<> Mandarin Chinese: an ethnologoical briefing
<> Chinese phonetics
1) Word-mapping table for pinyin, Wade-Giles, and Yale
2) Pronunciation of phonetic symbols
3) Chinese Language and Pronunication Compiled from From Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America Online (August 1995). This also contains a list of Pinyin/Wade-Giles equivalencies.
<> Chinese orthography
1) Chinese Language and "Alphabet" compiled from: David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
2) Logographics
3) Chinese characters Articles adapted from: David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) [pp. 200-201]
4) Learn to use characters
<> What is Chinese like?

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What is Chinese like: Chinese calligraphy

This is a calligraphy by Shoukang Fan of Su Dong-po's Chi-bi Fu.

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