{"id":843,"date":"2022-12-12T19:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=843"},"modified":"2022-12-12T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:13:32","slug":"china-books-christmas-calendar-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"China books Christmas calendar (12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The book of the day is actually not shown here, but only the accompanying records. Legendary Chinese-American linguist Yuen Ren Chao (Zhao Yuanren \u8d99\u5143\u4efb, 1892-1982) published his Mandarin Primer<\/em> \u570b\u8a9e\u5165\u9580 in 1948, and it became a classic for teaching basic modern Chinese. Yuen Ren Chao was awarded a Boxer indemnity scholarship<\/a> \u5e9a\u5b50\u8ce0\u6b3e\u734e\u5b78\u91d1 in 1910 and studied mathematics and physics at Cornell University, where he learnt to know Hu Shi \u80e1\u9069 (1891-1962), a leader in the New Culture and May 4th Movements, later president of Peking University and Chinese ambassador to the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yuen Ren Chao’s doctoral degree from Harvard in 1918, however, was in philosophy. Only when Chao returned to China in 1920 did he take a systematic interest in linguistics, and did research on dialects at Academia Sinica. In the 1930s Chao together with another well-known linguist, Luo Changpei \u7f85\u5e38\u57f9 (1899\u20131958), translated Bernhard Karlgren’s \u00c9tudes sur la Phonologie Chinoise<\/em> into Chinese, published in 1940 as \u300a\u4e2d\u570b\u97f3\u97fb\u5b78\u7814\u7a76\u300b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our records are the original 1955 edition, and you may listen to the recordings online<\/a>. The voices heard are Yuen Ren Chao himself and his daughter Rulan Chao Pian (\u535e\u8d99\u5982\u862d Bian Zhao Rulan, 1922\u20132013). She was a prominent ethnomusicologist and professor at Harvard University. She and Chao Yuen Ren assisted Buwei Yang Chao (\u8d99\u694a\u6b65\u5049 1889\u20131981), Chao’s wife and Rulan’s mother who was a physician, in writing How to Cook and Eat in Chinese<\/a><\/em>, a celebrated cookbook where they together coined English terms as ”stir fry” \u7092 and ”pot stickers” \u934b\u8cbc for Chinese cooking methods and dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book of the day is actually not shown here, but only the accompanying records. Legendary Chinese-American linguist Yuen Ren Chao (Zhao Yuanren \u8d99\u5143\u4efb, 1892-1982) published his Mandarin Primer \u570b\u8a9e\u5165\u9580 in 1948, and it became a classic for teaching basic modern Chinese. Yuen Ren Chao was awarded a Boxer indemnity scholarship \u5e9a\u5b50\u8ce0\u6b3e\u734e\u5b78\u91d1 in 1910 and … <\/p>\n

Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa \u201dChina books Christmas calendar (12)\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bocker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2crM2-dB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}