AUTUMN QUARTER 2002 CHINESE 683 Study of the Chinese Writing System Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

1. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
   (Required. Available from SBX (1806 N. High Street, 291-9528).

2. Erbaugh, Mary S., ed. 2002. Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing. Columbus, OH: National East Asian Language Resource Center, Ohio State University.
   (Required. Available from SBX.)

3. Additional Readings (to be made available during the quarter).

Main Library Reserve: Reference books will be placed on Reserve in Main Library as needed. Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 683. (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only. Also, search for OSU's web e-journal articles at OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals.)

The Chinese writing system has been in continuous use for over three millennia, serving the longest, uninterrupted literary tradition in the world today. Moreover, up to about the end of the eighteenth century, over half of all the books published in the world were written in the Chinese script, a logographic, morpho-syllabic writing system. Against this backdrop, this course is a linguistic study of the Chinese writing system, covering the origin, classification, composition, and development of the Chinese script. Also covered are related topics, such as language reform, reading and processing of Chinese characters, cultural aspects of the script, dialect-writing, and language policies that impact China's national minorities.

This course aims to provide students with some understanding of the history and development of the Chinese writing system. The course forms the foundation for further pedagogical and/or linguistic research.

The course surveys topics of relevance to the Chinese writing system. It covers the origin, classification, and development of the Chinese script. The course also studies the history of language reform in China, including simplification and phoneticization. Selected psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies on the reading of Chinese characters, gender-linked issues, and other topics will also be covered.

The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings, individual and small-group assignments in class, and students' presentation of homework assignments and their individual research project. A mailing list for the class will also be used for dissemination of information and student-initiated discussions concerning topics brought up in class. All class assignments will be placed online and internally-linked for class-viewing and discussion.

1. Read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class lectures and discussion.
2. Attend class regularly, and participate actively in class discussions and individual/group activities.
3. Submit three homework assignments (each about 4 double-spaced pages, including references).[1]
4. For the term paper project:
   
   1. Turn in a one-page, double-spaced, term paper proposal with select references in Week 6.
   2. Present an oral version of the term paper project at the end of the quarter.[2]
   3. Submit a term paper in digital format (about 10 pages, double-spaced).[3]

[1] These may be a combination of short reactions papers and written responses to specific questions from the instructor based on the readings. The assignments should be submitted in digital format (DOC, RTF, NJX, PDF, HMTL, or some other format) that will be internally-linked for class use. A hardcopy is optional, except in cases where handwritten material is submitted. Files are to be uploaded by the students to their personal web subdirectory if they have one; otherwise submitted to the instructor for uploading.

[2] Prepare hardcopy handouts or transparencies, or prepare a digital file in PPT format (for a PowerPoint presentation), or in some other digital file format (DOC, PDF, NJX, etc.).

[3] A hardcopy is optional, but practical if appendices are included that would otherwise require scanning of each page of the appendix.) All homework assignments and term papers are to be placed online and internally-linked for class use.

DISABILITY SERVICES
Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue (Tel: 292.3307. TDD: 292.0901)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY (ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT)
Academic integrity is essential to maintaining an environment that fosters excellence in teaching, research, and other educational and scholarly activities. Failure to follow the rules and guidelines established in OSU's Code of Student Conduct may constitute "Academic Misconduct." OSU's Code of Student Conduct (section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct) defines as academic misconduct "[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process." Examples of academic misconduct include (but are not limited to) plagiarism, collusion (unauthorized collaboration), copying the work of another student, possession of unauthorized materials during an examination, and submission of the same work for credit in two (or more) courses. Ignorance of the University's Code of Student Conduct is never considered an "excuse" for academic misconduct; hence, be sure to review the sections dealing with academic misconduct in the Code of Student Conduct. Be sure also to read the University's Ten Suggestions for Preserving Academic Integrity and/or the Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity (from Northwestern U.). The University's policy on academic misconduct will be enforced in accordance with Faculty Rule 3335-5-54, and all alleged cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Office of Academic Affairs' Committee on Academic Misconduct (COAM) for resolution. In addition, graduate students should be familiar with the Graduate Student Code of Research and Scholarly Conduct (pdf). Students with questions concerning the University's policies or questions concerning academic or research misconduct are encouraged to ask the instructor any time during the quarter.

There will be no midterm or final examination. Grading will be based on:

Class discussions/participation	30%
Homework assignments (3)	30%
Research project (all phases)	40%
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	100%

WEEK 1
		9/26	Orientation and Introduction Lecture: Origins of writing and classifications of writing systems of the world

WEEK 2
10/1	Basic Features of the Chinese Writing System Reading: Chen (1999), Ch. 8	10/3	Origins of Writing in China Readings: Boltz (1996) Keightley (1989)

WEEK 3
10/8	Structural Evolution of Chinese Characters Reading: Woon (1987), Ch. 4	10/10	Development of the Phonetic Compound Reading: Woon (1987), Ch. 5

WEEK 4
10/15	The Ideographic Myth Reading: DeFrancis (2002) Due: Homework Assignment 1.	10/17	The Ideographic Myth and Alienation Reading: Erbaugh (2002)

WEEK 5
10/22	Script Reform: Simplification Reading: Chen (1999), Ch.9	10/24	Simplification: A Frequency-List Study Reading: Chan and He (1988) Due: Homework Assignment 2.

WEEK 6
10/29	Phoneticization Schemes for Chinese Reading: Chen (1999), Ch. 10 Due: One-page project proposal and select references.	10/31	Reformers and Reform of the Chinese Writing System Readings: Mair (2002) Chen (1999), Ch. 11

WEEK 7
11/5	Writing Systems and a Functional Approach Reading: Hansell (2002)	11/7	A Cultural, Historical Peek at the 'Female' Radical Reading: T'sou (1981) Optional: Zang (1995) Due: Homework Assignment 3.

WEEK 8
11/12	Reading and Psycholinguistic Studies Readings: Tzeng (2002) Tzeng and Hung (2002)	11/14	Character Complexity and Phonological Frequency Readings: Qian et al. (1994) Ziegler et al. (2000)

WEEK 9
11/19	Brain Activation and Processing of Chinese Characters Readings: Tan et al. (2000) Tan et al. (2001)	11/21	Dialect-Writing and Vernacular Characters Readings: Chen (1999), Ch. 7 Optional: Li (2000) Discussion Leader: Jing Yan Film on Nüshu (women's writing in Hunan, PRC)

WEEK 10
11/26	Language Policies and Reforms - Writing Systems of Minority Languages of China Reading: Zhou (2001)	11/28	No class - Thanksgiving Day

WEEK 11
12/3	Student Presentations M. Chan: "Chinese Operas: Sources for Dialect Pronunciations and Vernacular Characters"	12/5	Student Presentations

WEEK 12:   EXAM WEEK
Term paper due: Monday, 9 December 2002, 5:00 p.m. (Note: Request for extension must be made by the end of Week 11.)

1. TEXTBOOKS.
   1. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
   2. Erbaugh, Mary S., ed. 2002. Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing. Columbus, OH: National East Asian Language Resource Center, Ohio State University.

   
   

2. READING SELECTIONS.
   . Note: This is only a preliminary list. Reading selections may be changed before classes begin.
   1. Boltz, William G. 1996. "Early Chinese Writing." In: The World's Writing Systems. Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.191-199.

   2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and Baozhang He. 1988. "A study of the one thousand most frequently used characters." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 23.3:49-68. [PDF file, 1.6 MB]

   3. Chen, Ping. 1999.
      • Ch.   8. "Basic features of the Chinese writing system," pp. 131-147.
      • Ch.   9. "Simplification of the traditional writing system," pp. 148-163.
      • Ch. 10. "Phonetization of Chinese," pp.164-190.
      • Ch. 11. "Use and reform of the Chinese writing system: present and future," pp. 191-201.

   4. DeFrancis, John. 2002. "The ideographic myth."
      (Ch. 1, Erbaugh (ed.), 2002, pp. 1-20.)

   5. Erbaugh, Mary S. 2002. "How the ideographic myth alienates Asian Studies from Psychology and Linguistics."
      (Ch. 2, Erbaugh (ed.), 2002, pp. 21-51.)

   6. Hansell, Mark. 2002. "Functional answers to structural problems in thinking about writing."
      (Ch. 7, Erbaugh (ed.), 2002, pp. 124-176.

   7. Keightley, David N. 1989. "The origins of writing in China: Scripts and cultural contexts." In: The Origins of Writing. Edited by Wayne M. Senner. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. 171-202.

   8. Li, David C.S. 2000. "Phonetic borrowing: Key to the vitality of written Cantonese in Hong Kong." Written Language and Literacy Vol. 3.2:199-233. (Optional reading.) [OSU e-journal article]

   9. Mair, Victor H. 2002. "Sound and meaning in the history of characters: Views of China's earliest script reformers."
      (Ch. 6, Erbaugh (ed.), 2002, pp. 105-123.)

   10. Qian, Gaoyin, David Reinking, and Ronglan Yang. 1994. "The effects of character complexity on recognizing Chinese characters." Contemporary Educational Psychology 19:155-166. [OSU e-journal article]

   11. Tan, Li Hai, John A. Spinks, Jia-Hong Gao, Ho-Ling Liu, Charles A. Perfetti, Jinhu Xiong, Kathryn A. Stofer, Yonglin Pu, Yijun Liu, and Peter T. Fox. 2000. "Brain activation in the processing of Chinese characters and words: A functional MRI study." Human Brain Mapping 10:16-27. [OSU e-journal article]

   12. Tan, Li Hai, Ho-Ling Liu, Charles A. Perfetti, John A. Spinks, Peter T. Fox, and Jia-Hong Gao. 2001. "The neural system underlying Chinese logograph reading." NeuroImage 13:836-846. [OSU e-journal article]

   13. T'sou, Benjamin K.Y. 1981. "A sociolinguistic analysis of the logographic writing system of Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9.1:1-19.

   14. Tzeng, Ovid J.L. 2002. "Current issues in learning to read Chinese." In: Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues. Edited by Wenling Li, Janet S. Gaffney, and Jerome L. Packard. Boston, Dordrecht, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pp 3-15.

   15. Tzeng, Ovid J.L. and Daisy L. Hung. 2002. "A phantom of linguistic relativity: Script, speech, and thought."
       (Ch. 3, Erbaugh (ed.), 2002, pp. 52-74.)

   16. Woon, Wee Lee. 1987. Chinese Writing: Its Origin and Evolution. Macau: University of East Asia.
       • Ch. 4. "The three important factors underlying the structural evolution of Chinese characters," pp. 105-175.
       • Ch. 5. "The development of the phonetic compound," pp. 176-234.

   17. Zang, Kehe (臧克和). 1995. Shuowen Jiezide Wenhua Shuojie (说文解字的文化说解) [Published English title: A Cultural Interpretation on Shuowen Jiezi]. Wuhan: Hubei Renmin Chubanshe. (Excerpt: Chapter 3.3 on "Female concept" (女性意象). Pp. 125-142. Optional reading.)

   18. Zhou, Minglang. 2001. "Language policy and reforms of writing systems for minority languages in China." Written Language & Literacy 4.1:31-65. [This was an OSU e-journal article]

   19. Ziegler, Johannes C., Li Hai Tan, Conrad Perry, and Marie Montant. 2000. "Phonology matters: The phonological frequency effect in written Chinese." Psychological Science 11.3:234-238. [OSU e-journal article]

1. Boltz, William G. 1986. "Early Chinese writing." World Archaeology 17.3:420-436.

2. Boltz, William G. 1994. The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society.

3. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1998. "Gender differences in the Chinese language: a preliminary report." Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Two volumes, edited by Hua Lin. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of California. Volume 2, pages 35-52. [See PDF file, 240 KB]

4. Chan, Thomas. 2001. Orthographic Change: Yue (Cantonese) Chinese Dialect Characters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University. [See PDF file, 3.2 MB]

5. Chang, Nien-chuang T. 1981. "The devising and adoption of the Chinese phonetic symbols (zhuyin fuhao)." In: Towards a History of Phonetics. Edited by R.E. Asher and Eugenie J.A. Henderson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pages 141-160.

6. Coulmas, Florian. 1989. The Writing Systems of the World. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.
   (Chapter 6 is on the Chinese writing system, and Chapter 7 is on the adoption of the Chinese script for other East Asian languages.)

7. Coulmas, Florian. 1996. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers. (First published in paperback, 1999.)

8. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.

9. DeFrancis, John. 1984. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

10. DeFrancis, John. 1989. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

11. Hanley, J. Richard, Ovid Tzeng, and H.-S. Huang. 1999. "Learning to read Chinese." In: Learning to Read and Write: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Edited by Margaret Harris and Giyoo Hatano. Cambridge, U.K./New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 173-195.

12. Hannas, William C. 1997. Asia's Orthographic Dilemma. (With a foreword by John DeFrancis.) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

13. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1923. Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese. by Bernhard Karlgren Paris: P. Geuthner. (Reprints include: Chengwen Pub. Co., Taiwan in 1966; Dover Publications, New York, in 1974; and Asea Munhwasa, Soul T'ukpy'olsi (with Korean introduction), in 1975.)

14. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1940. Grammata Serica: Script and Phonetics in Chinese and Sino-Japanese. Taipei: Ch'eng-Wen Pub. Co. (Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, no. 12, 1940.)

15. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1957. Grammata Serica Recensa. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. (Reprinted from The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. Bulletin no. 29, 1957.)

16. Logan, Robert K. 1986. The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
    (Passages from the book include: "Chinese writing has evolved so little from its pictographic origins that contemporary Chinese are able to read texts 3,500 years old." (p.43). "... it is my contention that one of the 'inhibitory factors to the growth of modern science,' ironically enough, was the Chinese ideographic script. It is my belief that the first scientific literature, whether Oriental or Occidental, was destined to be written in an alphabetic script because the alphabet creates the environmental conditions under which abstract theoretical science flourishes." (p.54).)

17. Mair, Victor H. 1996. "Modern Chinese Writing." In: The World's Writing Systems. Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.200-208.

18. McCawley, James D. 1984. The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters. Chicago and London: U. of Chicago Press.

19. Nakanishi, Akira. 1980. Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms. Rutland; Tokyo: C.E. Tuttle.

20. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. (Chapter 3 is on the history of the Chinese script.)

21. Packard, Jerome L., Wenling Li, and Janet S. Gaffney (eds.) 2002. Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

22. Qiu, Xigui (裘錫圭). 2000. Chinese Writing (文字學概要). Translated by Gilbert L. Mattos and Jerry Norman. [= Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4] Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies.

23. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. (Chapters 1 and 8 concern writing and language reform.)

24. Sampson, Geoffrey. 1985. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford: Stanford U. Press. (Chapter 8 is on "A logographic system: Chinese writing.")

25. Sergent, Wallace. 1990. A Study of the Oral Reading Strategies of Advanced and Highly Advanced Second Language Readers of Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

26. Tang, Jian. 1996. Prototypes in Lesser Seal Scripts (China, ca. 221 BC - AD 220). Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

27. Taylor, Insup, and M. Martin Taylor. 1995. Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Amsterdom/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
    (Part I on Chinese includes chapters on text writing in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese; reforming of spoken and written Chinese; learning Pinyin and Chinese characters; and history of education and literacy in China.)

28. Taylor, Insup, and David R. Olson. 1995. Scripts and Literacy: Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    (Includes In-Mao Liu's article on "Script factors that affect literacy: alphabetic vs. logographic languages," Che Kan Leong's article on "Orthographic and psycholinguistic considerations in developing literacy in Chinese," and Insup Taylor and Kwonsaeng Park's article on "Differential processing of content words and function words: Chinese characters vs. phonetic scripts."

29. Serruys, Paul L-M. 1984. "On the system of the pu shou in the Shuo-wen Chieh-tzu." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 55:651-753.

30. Wang, Jian, Albrecht Inhoff, and Hsuan-chih Chen (eds.) 1999. Reading Chinese Script: A Cognitive Analysis. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

31. Wieger, Léon. 1927. Chinese Characters; Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification: A Thorough Study from Chinese Documents. Second edition. Translated into English by L. Davrout. (Reprinted om 1965 by Paragon Book Reprint Corp. (This is enlarged and revised according to the 4th French edition.)

32. Wilder, George Durand and J. H. Ingram. 1972. Analysis of Chinese Characters. Taipei: Ch'eng Wen Pub. Co.

33. Yau, Shun-chiu. 1983. "Temporal order in the composition of Archaic Chinese Ideograms." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11.2:187-213.

34. Yin, Binyong and John S. Rohsenow. 1994. Modern Chinese Characters. Beijing: Sinolingua.

35. Zhou, Youguang (周有光). The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts (中国语文的代演进). Translated by Liqing Zhang (张立青). Columbus, OH: National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC), Ohio State University.

    
    Also see Chinese 683 (Spring 1988): Readings, OSU Libraries' collection of works on Xu Shen (Hsu Shen)'s Shuowen Jiezi (Shuo wen chieh tzu), and OSU Libraries' online catalogue subject searches for Chinese characters -- History and Chinese language -- Writing, etc., for publications in Chinese, English, French, Japanese, and other languages.

1. Bishop, Tom. 2002. Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese. Version 3.0. User's Guide. Third edition. (First edition (1995) and second edition (1998) were co-authored by Peter Tannenbaum and Tom Bishop.) Portland, OR: Wenlin Institute, Inc.
   (For PCs and Macs, Wenlin 3.0 supports Unicode 3.1 and GB18030 (China), which cover over 70,000 Chinese characters, as well as Big5+ (Taiwan).)

2. Björkstén, Johan. 1994. Learn to Write Chinese Characters. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

3. Fenn, Henry C. (ed.). 1953. Chinese Characters Easily Confused. New Haven, CT: Far Eastern Publications. (Reprinted in 1984 by Lucky Book Co., Ltd., Taiwan.)

4. Naughton, William, and Ying Li. 1999. Reading & Writing Chinese. Revised edition. Boston and Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.

   (etc.)

• Ohio State University:
  
  • OSU's Online Resources at Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW).
    Excellent resources, "handouts", tutorials, etc., to assist undergraduate students -- and those for whom English is a second (or third) foreign language -- in their research and writing. The Center also provides a web page on plagiarism, giving a definition of plagiarism, together with a set of Basic Citation Rules and Examples, including use of direct quotes versus paraphrasing, etc. To cite books for this course, one recommendation is to use the sciences style for bibliography and in-text citations in the Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide, available online from OSU Libraries.
  • net.TUTOR (OSU Libraries' set of online tutorials, such as developing research skills in using WWW and other Net resources)

• Student Resources for Compositions and Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (Composition Center, Dartmouth College)
  NOTE: How to cite a webpage -- include three pieces of information: title, URL, and date of access - for example:
  

  Marjorie Chan's Chinese 683: Study of the Chinese Writing System <http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c683.htm> (Autumn 2002) [Accessed 1 September 2002].

  (Or click here to cite this particular web page using "copy-and-paste." Hit 'BACK' on your web browser to return to this part of the web page.)

• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources (Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)

• OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs
  Some working knowledge of Wade-Giles romanization is indispensable for conducting online library searches. If you are accessing the library with Big5-encoding and decoding capabilities, you can also telnet and select the VT100 version of OSCAR (login as library) to conduct searches in Chinese. Please also keep in mind that Main Library houses its East Asian collections in three locations: (1) "use in library" references are in the East Asian Studies (EAS) Reading Room; (2) publications in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are in the East Asian Studies (EAS) collection on the 9th floor; and (3) publications in English (and other Western languages) are elsewhere in the Main Stacks.

  Suggestion for help with selecting a topic for your term paper project: Start by searching under 'SUBJECT' in OSU's OSCAR for Chinese language -- bibliography. Our Main Library has several Chinese linguistics bibliographies (e.g., by Paul Fu-Mien Yang, Alain Lucas, Winston Yang et al., T. W. Kim and A. Wawrzyszko, Maurice Tseng, etc., including those in Chinese) that are useful for term paper topic selection and finding references. One bibliography that got overlooked in the cataloging under "Chinese language -- bibliography" is William S-Y Wang and Anatole Lyovin's 1970, database-generated CLIBOC: Chinese Linguistics Bibliography On Computer. (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press). Such bibliographies (albeit some more dated than others) also provide valuable information on which journals you might check out for more recent articles relevant for your research topic. It is also useful to do a search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- Writing, with over a hundred entries, or for Chinese characters, with entries under different subheadings. In other cases, you may be interested in using some dictionaries as your source of data. One place to start is to search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- dictionaries, which will give you over 300 titles, including a few bibliographies of Chinese language dictionaries (some of which are two-way, Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionaries).

  There are also word lists, glossaries, and dictionaries in digital form that is web-accessible, and some of them are searchable online, as given in my Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries for Chinese (and Japanese). Other online resources include Chinese character frequency lists that are part of Jun Da's Chinese Text Computing Project website. In addition, character/word frequency lists can also be generated by concordancing software. (See, for example, my 2002 JCLTA article, "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research" (PDF, 1.03 MB).)

• Ohio State University also subscribes to a number of linguistics journals with recent issues digitized and available online in PDF and/or HTML format. The benefits are many: it reduces shelving space, eliminates "lost" and "missing" items, and enables instantaneous downloading and multiple-user access for research and course work.

  To retrieve articles from these e-journals, go to:
  

  • OhioLink: Electronic Journal Center. (E-journals include Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, etc.) Alternatively, go via OSU Libraries' Research Tools: Electronic Journals.
    If you have a specific e-journal or article in mind, go directly to OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals.

    Some sources of e-journals:
    

  • Cambridge Journal Online (OSU subscriptions include: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Language in Society, Language Teaching, Language Variation and Change, Phonology, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.)
  • IDEAL: International Digital Electronic Access Library (OSU subscriptions include: Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, Computer Speech & Language, Journal of Memory and Language, and Journal of Phonetics.)
  • ISTOR (Depository of back issues of journals, including e-journals for Asian studies, such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 1-55, 1936-1995 currently, with a "moving wall" of 5 years) and Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. 16-54, 1956-1995; and Vol. 1-15, 1941-1956 published under the title, The Far Eastern Quarterly; OSU Columbus only))
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI): Electronic Index to Journal Articles. (Chadwyck-Healey's electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. (Participants in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections can now link directly from the relevant index records in PCI to the corresponding full text within JSTOR.)

• OSU Libraries' Chinese Collection (The introduction contains a description of the history, scope, size, and strengths of the collection (and that includes Chinese linguistics).) (Big5-encoding)

• Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) (library catalogs, research databases, etc.)

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) [WWW (OSU Columbus Only)]

• Linguistics and Language Indexes, Abstracts, Bibs, and TOCs (links to resources compiled by U. of Houston Libraries)

• Linguistic Abstracts Online (searchable online, from Blackwell Publishers, edited by Terry Langendoen, U. of Arizona; see List of Journals.)).

• Linguist List: 2002 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well)

• Indices/Tables of Content of some Chinese linguistics journals (subscribed by OSU Libraries):
  
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).
  • Journal of East Asian Linguistics: Table of Contents of Published Issues (1992- ).
  • Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [English title: Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (No online indices -- Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827)
  • Yuyan Yanjiu: Table of Contents Index (Eng./GB) (1981- ); (Main: PL1004 .Y84)
    
    Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.

    Zhongguo Yuwen: Table of Contents Index (GB for now, Eng. under construction) (1995- ).

• Additional journal titles (in Wade-Giles romanization) subscribed by OSU Libraries, provided by Guoqing Li, Chinese Studies Librarian (9/19/01 guest lecture in C680):
  
  • Chung-kuo yu wen (Jen min chiao yu ch'u pan she), PL1004 .C44 (bimonthly)
  • Chung-kuo yu wen (Taipei, Taiwan), PL1004 .C5 (monthly)
  • Chung-kuo yu wen t'ung hsun, PL1004 .C57 (bimonthly)
  • Han tzu wen hua, PL1281 .H365 (quarterly)
  • Han yu hsueh hsi (= Hanyu Xuexi), PL1004 .H35 (bimonthly)
  • Yu wen chiao hsueh t'ung hsun, PL1004 .Y74 (monthly)
  • Yu wen chien she t'ung hsun, PL1175 .A1 H35Y8 (quarterly)
  • Yu wen hsueh hsi (Jen min chiao yu ch'u pan she), PL1004 .Y8 (monthly)
  • Yu wen yueh k'an (= Yuwenyuekan), PL1004 .Y8267

    Other journals include:

  • Chung-kuo wen tzu, PL1004 .C42
  • Ku wen tzu yen chiu, PL1281 .K827
  • Wen tzu kai ko (=Wenzi Gaige), PL1175.A1 W4
  • Yü yen wen tzu hsüeh, PL1004 .Y829

• MLA International Bibliography (index (1963 to present) to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics)

• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)
  1. ChinaLinks1: General Resources for Chinese Studies
     Search engines (including the DEALL Search Engine for searching well over 1,000 webpages within our department's web subdirectory), publishers, Asian studies associations and journals (with indices), traditional Chinese culture, Chinese e-texts, etc.
  2. ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs
     Downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, etc.
  3. ChinaLinks3: Chinese Language and Linguistics
     Chinese dialectology; Chinese linguistics associations and journals (with tables of content/indices); conferences; Chinese Linguistics Page (with online Chinese linguistics articles), links to website with Chinese Romanization Comparative Charts (for Hanyu Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Zhuyin Fuhao, Tongyong (adopted in July 2002 by the Taiwan government)), as well as links concerning Unicode and Chinee Character Sets and Internal Codes.
  4. ChinaLinks4: General Linguistics and Internet Resources
     Links to linguistics associations and journals (with tables of contents and indices, etc.) -- including a link to the International Digital Electronic Access Library's website, which houses such publications as the Journal of Phonetics, with downloadable abstracts and recently-published, full articles (in PDF format) for OSU and other subscribing institutions (guest logins are also available); general references (including a link to the searchable, on-line Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries and references), other internet resources, transcription tools and (commercial and freely-downloadable) software for speech analysis; tutorials for acoustic phonetics, including G. Dillon's Resources for Studying Human Speech and CSLU - Center for Spoken Language Understanding's website for Spectrogram Reading; web-authoring tutorials and tools, etc.
  5. Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries (my links (now part of my ChinaLinks.osu.edu site) to online and downloadable Chinese word lists, frequency lists, dictionaries, etc.)

• On-Line Dissertation Abstracts (on-line copy of my short piece for the IACL Newsletter, with hot links to websites, such as UMI, for abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations (and some M.A. theses))

• Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography (bibliography, some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, links to publications and links on nüshu (women's script from Hunan, PRC), etc.)

• Marjorie Chan's Online Bibliography for Chinese 580 (bibliography of English-language sources compiled in Spring 1999 for the undergraduate course, Chinese 580 (Chinese Language: Description and Analysis); updated periodically)

• Marjorie Chan's Courses and Sample Syllabi (readings and references may provide a handy source to look for research topics or for supplementary reading, including Chinese 683: Study of the Chinese Writing System (Spring 1988)).

• EALL 683: Scripts of East Asia. (This course is taught by our Dept. chair, Prof. James Unger. The online course syllabus includes references to psycholinguistic studies.)

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There were 5,764 visitors between 15 February 1998 and 26 August 2006 (2,695 between 02.15.98 and 08.18.02, and 3,069 between 08.18.02 and 08.26.06). Originally created on 15 February 1998 and revised since, with latest major revisions for Autumn 2002. Last update: 26 August 2006 (for archiving purposes) Photo of the Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions used as a logo for this webpage is Oracle Bone No.1 (see description) of the online display from the Oracle Bone Collection of United College Library, CUHK (Eng/Big5). Copyright © 1998-200x Marjorie K.M. Chan. All rights reserved on course syllabus and on-line materials developed for the course. URL:     http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c683-a02.htm

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