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Scholarly and Linguistic Resources on Chinese

The Scholarly and Linguistic Resources on Chinese Page has links to resources on Chinese linguistics and general scholarly resources related to the Chinese language. (Chinese Translation Services)

Organizations and Societies

• The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong holds linguistics conferences and seminars in Hong Kong.
• Information on COLIPS, the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society
• The Cantonese Language Association
• Treasury is a refereed journal of new resources for primary materials in Chinese dialectology, published by The Yuen Ren Society and edited by David Prager Branner.

Academies, Institutes, Centers

• An overview of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at the Academia Sinica in Taipei
• A page on the preparatory office for an Institute of Linguistics at the Academia Sinica in Taipei

Conferences and Meetings

• The Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork sponsors conferences and other events.
• Information on the International Conference for Teaching Chinese in Grade Schools: Materials and Methodologies held at the National Taitung Teachers' College, Taitung, Taiwan in April 1995.
• Information on the annual meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)

Projects

• A limited document (needs updating) listing some Electronic Text Projects in Chinese
• Gopher site of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project
• Some rather old information about a Language Atlas of China

Publications, WWW Pages, and Media Events

• Yale University Far Eastern Publications site
• Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao have a Chinese Linguistics Page
• Richard Harbaugh has published An Etymological Chinese-English Dictionary (Zhongwen Zipu), which "uses traditional etymologies and a unique series of charts based on them to show the close relationships between Chinese characters."
• The Summer Institute of Linguistics has released the 14th edition of their Ethnologue, a vast catalogue of languages from around the world. Among the entries are listings of the languages of several Chinese speaking regions. Several of these are listed under "C" in their alphabetical directory. Here are direct links to a few of the entries: Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese Sign Language.
• Information about the journal COLIPS, from the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society
• Ken Lunde's CJK.INF file containing a comprehensive list of resources related to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language computing.
• Treasury is a refereed journal of new resources for primary materials in Chinese dialectology, published by The Yuen Ren Society and edited by David Prager Branner.
• A list of Mailing Lists Related to the Chinese Language
• The Culture and the Arts chapter in the Army Area Handbook for China contains introductory background information that includes some material on Chinese publishing and literature.
• A document on Singapore's Ethnic and Linguistic Groups can be found in the Army Area Handbook for Singapore.
• An article about Asian naming conventions

Dissertations

• Functional Perspectives and Chinese Word Order, HU Wenze

Writing Systems, Romanization, History of Characters

• Mark Bosley's nutshell guide to Practical Tone Spelling
• Stanley Goertzen's A Middle Chinese Spelling Construction Kit aims "to make the historical spellings easy (almost mechanical) to access by anyone who has an interest..."
• Pinyin web site (Chinese, GB coding)
• A Cross-Reference List of Phonetic Schemes for Mandarin

Library Collections Related to Chinese

• The National Library of China in cooperation with the Coombs at Australian National University provides a searchable Chinese Serials Database
• A more up-to-date resource can be found (although the link timed out the last time we checked) at the China-Australia Electronic Information Centre (http://caeic.nlc.gov.cn/index.html), a cooperative project of the National Library of China, the Australia National University, and the Australia-China Council. The project is further described in a page entitled About the CAEIC project.
• Tsinghua University Library has a GB-format List of Online Chinese Libraries
• Darrell Dorrington's collection of telnet addresses of major Chinese language collections libraries
• Gopher site of the Chinese Section of the Library of Congress Asian Reading Room

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