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Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese), MA

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• Second Language Requirement: No

Program Description

Degree Awarded: MA Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese)

The Chinese graduate program in the School of International Letters and Cultures offers an MA degree with a focus in one of two areas: culture (literature, linguistics, religion) or pedagogy.

The two areas of instruction are designed to prepare students to succeed in Chinese language environments with cultural competence. Each of these two areas also introduce students to the fundamentals of sinology and East Asian studies, which can prepare them for further scholarly, educational and professional pursuits.

The focus on culture (literature, linguistics, religion) provides disciplinary training that allows students to achieve in-depth command of spoken, aural and oral Mandarin Chinese as well as written literary Chinese.

The pedagogy focus is intended for students whose major interest is in teaching modern Chinese in K-16 environments. Students are trained in communicative and task-based language teaching approaches embedded within appropriate cultural contexts, as well as developing solid foundations in teaching Chinese literacy, pronunciation and linguistic systems.

Degree Overview

The 30-hour program of study includes two areas of focus students can chose from and a thesis or applied project, depending on area chosen. Prospective masters students should have ambition, enthusiasm and commitment to Chinese language and culture. 

Courses and Electives

The coursework for each student is individualized and based upon the student's previous training, research goals, and mentor and committee consensus. Our program requires students to complete a written thesis.

The degree plan includes a minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate work, as approved by the candidate's supervisory committee, a thesis, or an applied project. The plan must include the CHI 501 Proseminar: East Asian Humanities course offered by the department. When approved by the candidate's supervisory committee, nine hours of advanced-level work in another language or in closely related courses may be included. Students who are primarily interested in teaching at the secondary or community college levels may select a plan of study with a concentration in language pedagogy.

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of Graduate College and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  

Under-represented minorities

International students, degree requirements.

30 credit hours and a thesis

Required Core (3 credit hours) CHI 501 or JPN 501 Proseminar: East Asian Humanities (3)

Concentration (3 credit hours) SLC 596 Second Language Methodologies (3)

Electives (15 credit hours)

Other Requirements (3 credit hours) CHI 598 Topic: History of the Chinese Language (3)

Culminating Experience (6 credit hours) CHI 593 Applied Project (6) or CHI 599 Thesis (6)

Additional Curriculum Information The Master of Arts in Asian languages and civilizations has concentrations in Chinese and Japanese. Students in the Chinese concentration take CHI 501 as required core and students in the Japanese concentration take JPN 501 for core. The course is cross-listed.

Electives are selected in consultation with the program chairperson.

Admission Requirements

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Applicants are eligible to apply to the program if they have earned a bachelor's or master's degree in Chinese or a related field from a regionally accredited institution.

Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program, or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.

All applicants must submit:

• graduate admission application and application fee
• official transcripts
• personal statement
• writing sample
• three letters of recommendation
• proof of English proficiency

Additional Application Information An applicant whose native language is not English must provide proof of English proficiency regardless of their current residency.

The writing sample should represent the applicant's thinking and writing skills on a topic connected with Chinese culture.

Candidates for the master's degree should present the equivalent of an undergraduate major in Chinese upon entrance to the program. Those who lack this background but show strong potential and meet the Graduate College admission requirements, including those with regard to English proficiency, may be admitted to a graduate program on a provisional basis, pending removal of specified deficiencies. These deficiencies must be completed in addition to the regular plan of study for the master's degree.

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• reporters and correspondents
• social and community service managers
• state department employees
• supply chain managers
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(This is a translation of the official version in Chinese.In case of any discrepancy, the Chinese version shall prevail.)

As important documents in the scientific research field, Master’s theses and PhD dissertations (collectively known as graduate theses) are the main basis to judge the academic level of degree applicants and to grant the corresponding degrees. In order to specify the format of graduate theses at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the regulations are hereby formulated for reference in accordance with the national standard Presentation of theses and dissertations .

Article 1 Basic Requirements

A graduate thesis (or one that is constituted by a series of papers) shall be a systematic and complete academic paper completed by the applicant based on the previous academic achievements in the field, under the instruction of his/her supervisor. No cheating or plagiarizing is allowed.. The graduate theses shall demonstrate clear academic insights, with accurate arguments, rigorous reasonings, reliable statistics, well-organized structures and fluent expressions. In general, the graduate theses should be written in Chinese.

Master’s theses shall carry new insights or achievements regarding the research topics, and have certain contribution to the development of the discipline, or economy and society. It should demonstrate that the author has had a solid grasp of the basic theories and systematic knowledge of the discipline, and has gained the ability to carry out scientific research and undertake professional and technological work. PhD dissertation shall reveal the innovative achievements regarding one or some aspects including material, perspective, viewpoint, methodology, theory, and so on, and have considerable contribution to the development of the discipline, economy and society. It should demonstrate that the author has had a solid and extensive grasp of the basic theories, and a thorough, systematic knowledge of the discipline, and has gained the ability to carry out scientific research independently.

Graduate theses shall use standard language, punctuation, number and units. The terminology, symbols, and codes adopted should be consistent throughout the graduate theses.

Article 2 Structure of the Graduate Theses

A graduate thesis shall comprise the following components:

(1)    Cover: The uniform cover provided by the University shall be used;

(2)    Title page;

(3)   Statement of Originality, and Copyright Authorization;

(4)  Abstracts in Chinese and English: As summary of the graduate thesis, the abstract shall highlight the innovative achievement and new insight of the graduate thesis, and describe concisely the research objectives, contents, methodology, results and conclusions. Four to six keywords shall be listed right after the abstract. The abstract should be concise and accurate, and the one in English should be in consistent with its Chinese counterpart.

(5)   Contents: As outline and subtitles for each part of the graduate thesis, the contents shall be listed in order together with the corresponding page numbers.

(6)    List of Symbols (if necessary): The meaning of the symbols and their units (or dimensions) can be described in this part.

(7)    Main body

The main body is the core part of the graduate thesis; in general it should comprise the following sections:

(a)    Introduction: As the beginning of the main body of the paper, the introduction shall be concise and compendious, and shall not resemble the abstract or work as an annotation of the abstract. Besides describing the research objective, methodology and results, a critical review of the current research in both China and abroad and the existing research achievements in relevant fields shall also be included. The introduction shall also cover the premises and tasks of the thesis work, the theoretical and experimental foundations, research scope, expected results and the issues to be solved through the thesis work based on the existing results.

(b)    Respective Chapters: The content shall be objective, authentic, well-prepared, well-arranged, logical, concise and readable. Although different disciplines may have different regulations, the academic norms generally accepted within the discipline shall be strictly followed.

(c)    Conclusion: As the end of the paper and conclusion of the whole contents, the conclusion shall be concise, accurate and complete. The innovative achievements and implication of the research within the field shall be highlighted, and some issues or suggestions related to the research can be further proposed.

(8)    Bibliography: Rigorous and realistic attitude shall be manifested in the thesis. According to the citation norms of different disciplines, the research results not of one’s own shall be listed at the end of the paper when cited.

(9)    Annotation (if necessary): Annotations, which shall not appear within the text, can be utilized as footnotes at the bottom of each page.

(10)    Appendix (if necessary): Appendix may complement the main body of the thesis.

(11) Acknowledgements: This piece of writing is a record in gratitude for the organizations and individuals who helped and supported the author when performing the thesis work.

(12) List of publications and achievements: The list may include the published (or accepted) academic papers, scientific and research achievements, patents, etc.

Article 3 Requirements of Layout, Printing and Binding

(1)    Size and font:

Level 1 heading: 16-point, bold type and Sans-serif;

Level 2 heading: 14-point, bold type and Sans-serif;

Level 3 heading: 12-point, bold type and Sans-serif;

Main body: 10.5/12-point, SimSun (Chinese) and Times New Roman (English).

(2)    Figures, annotations, bibliography and equations in the theses shall be numbered in sequence with Arabic Numerals (or within respective Chapters). The index and caption for figures shall be placed below the figure, while those for tables shall be placed on top of the table. The index for equations shall be bracketed and placed on the right side without dotted line.

(3)    Printing: The graduate theses shall be printed in A-4 size and double-sided.

(4)    Binding: The thesis submitted for archive must be bound as a book with the uniform cover provided by the University.

The Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of respective schools can define their own thesis formatting requirements according to the characteristics of the corresponding discipline.

Appendix: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Master's Degree Thesis Template (this template is for reference. Degree Assessment Committees of Colleges and departments may develop their own format templates according to the characteristics of their disciplines) . Please refer to the website of the graduate school (https://www.gs.sjtu.edu.cn/info/1136/8374.html ) for details.

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Danison, James   (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2023

什麼傳統與如何現代 — 陳獨秀與胡適的異同比較  What Chinese Tradition Is and How to Modernize China: A Comparative Study of Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi

Grahm, Maggie  (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2023

臺灣高鐵系統如何服務臺灣民衆與社會 — 基於乘客經驗與感受的研究   Taiwan’s High-Speed Rail System and It’s Service: A Study Based on Passenger Experience and Perception

Allaman, Nicholas  (Prof. Meow Hui Goh) 2023 The Shifting Voice of Wisdom: Persona and the Strung Pearl Genre.

Ye, Xuan  (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2023 Flowers of Shanghai : A Dialectology Perspective on the 1998 Film.

O'Dell, Jonathan (Prof. Mark Bender) 2023 Poetry and Power in Southwest China: Negotiating Identities in Ethnic Literature

Smalley, Olivia (Prof. Xiaobing Jian) 2023 " 煙火氣”—— 台灣夜市與民眾生活  “Yānhuǒ Qì”—— Táiwān Yèshì yǔ Mínzhòng Shēnghuó "Air of Smoke and Fire": Taiwan Night Markets and People’s Lives

Conley, Jason  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2022 A Study on the Economic Benefits of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – A Case Study on Belt and Road Infrastructure Investment.

Brethel, William  (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2022 Study on the Cross-cultural and Multimedia Construction and Reception Of the Global Icon “Sun Wukong”

Cockrum, Paul (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2022 Taiwanese Southern Min: Identity and Written Sociolinguistic Variation.

McClure, Sean  (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2021 Chinese International Students Campus Living and Residence Hall Management  中国留学⽣在美国⾼校的住宿⽣活与⾼校的宿舍管理

Ye, Jinwei   (Prof. Zhiguo Xie) 2021 Cross-categorical Intensification: The Case of Cantonese - gwai2

Smith, Joey   (Prof. Galal Walker) 2021 Assessing Wuhan residents’ opinion about and knowledge of Sponge Cities to guide engineering design and public outreach  武汉居民对海绵城市的认识与看法— 兼论海绵城市工程设计与社会推广

Mahall, Emma-Li    (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2021 Learning Centered Pedagogy: An Learner’s Experience and Perspective 以学习为中心教学法—一个学习者的经历与视角

Stevens, Kerry   (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2021 The Education Development in China’s Southwest Border Area under the Belt Road Initiative 一带一路倡议下中国西南边境地区教育发展研究 

Larson, Emily    (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2020 Negotiating Interpersonal Relations in 21 st  Century China: The Practices of China’s Post-90s Generation and Their Implications to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Wang, Ke   (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2020 Motivating, Embodying and Flowing: Music in Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language"

Klie, Hunter (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2019 Now is "Hunter," Now is "Liu Mengmei:" The Pedagogy of Performing Unfamiliar Roles and Negotiating Audience Expectations.

Jin, Menglin (Prof. Galal Walker) 2019 Nonverbal behaviors in Chinese Communication: What CFL Instructors See in Movies

Skladzien, Matthew (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2019 The Impact of Culture and Philosophy on Subjective Well-Being and an Introductory Look into Chinese Happiness Today

文化与哲学对幸福感的影响——当代中国幸福感初探

Nemeth, Jackson (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2019 New Wave of Chinese Returnees: Perspectives of Chinese Students Returning to China from Study in the U.S. on Return Incentives and New Economic Opportunity     新海归潮：现代留美学生海归回国动机与经济机会的看法分析

Mayer, Anzia (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2019 Conventionalized Expressions and Audience Perception in Chinese Discourse

Treat, Nicholas   (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2019 The Learning of Marital Arts and the Daoist and Buddhist Though     习武与悟道——武术与道家及释家思想

Garzon, Laura   (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2019 Coffee House Culture and the 3rd Space: Analysis of Shanghai Coffee House Customer Behaviors

咖啡馆文化与第三空间——上海咖啡馆顾客行为分析

Shen, Jingdi (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2018 Regional Lexical Variation in Modern Written Chinese: Analysis and Characterization Using Geo-Tagged Social Media

Pan, Junquan   (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2018 Constructing a Gay Persona: A Sociophonetic Case Study of an LGBT Talk Show in Taiwan

Wang, Mengling  (Prof. Meow Hui Goh) 2018 Yutai xinyong  玉臺新詠 and the Practice of Anthologization in Early Medieval China 

Li, Yawei (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2018 “Other People’s Children”: Implicit Comparison in Modern Chinese Conversation

Rainey, Trey (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2018 Cross-Cultural Humor Through Comedy Films? 跨文化同笑？—— 中美喜剧片笑点研究

Zhao, Wenting (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2017 Creating Stories: On the Design of Dialogue Experience in Chinese Language Pedagogy

Sheahan, Chris (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2017 Commercializing Fitness Activities- An Analysis of Guangzhou City Commercial Health Clubs' Business Operation and Consumer Behaviors 商业运作健身活动—广州市商业健身俱乐部运营状况与消费者行为分析

Simon, Lydia ( Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2017 "Cultural Creative Industry Parks" and Chinese Contemporary Art--A Comparative Study of Beijing's 798 Arts District and Songzhuang Artist Village "文化创意产业园区”与中国当代艺术--北京798艺术区与宋庄画家村的对比分析

Liu, Wei (Prof. Mark Bender) Political Myth and Religious Beliefs in a Ritual of Ancestor Worship in Huizhou, China

Jin, Chenxing (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) WeChat as a Medium to Socialize into Chinese Culture: The Persistence of Explicit Hierarchy

Kong, Xueying (Prof Kirk A. Denton) Change and Un-change: Bian Zhilin's Struggles in the Wartime, 1937-1950

Skov, Adam (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2016 中国对好莱坞的影响/ China's Influence on Hollywood

Li, Tina (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2015 A New Product on the Chinese Market - Exploring how the Xiaomi smartphone became an “overnight sensation” in China 新兴产品在中国市场——小米手机的“一夜暴红”与长期发展可能性研究

Greene, Briun ( Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2015 How to develop the charging station infrastructure for electric vehicles in China 如何在中国发展纯电动汽车的充电站基

Cornelius, Crista (Prof. Galal Walker) 2015 Language Socialization through Performance Watch in a Chinese Study Abroad Context

Wang, Qian (Prof. Zhiguo Xie) 2015 Focus placement and interpretation of bare gradabel adjective predicates in Mandarin Chinese

Xu, Yichun (Prof. Kirk A. Denton) 2015 A Critical-Historical Study of Suiganlu and Its Status as a Subgenre

Liang, Kai (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2015 The Making of the “Junzi”: A Modern Perspective on the Pedagogy of Junzi in the Analects

Wu, Zeyuan (Prof. Meow Hui Goh) 2015 Playing Antiquity: Qin Musiking and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China

Lorden, Mack (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2015 The Localization of Chinese Teas in America

Pochedly, Nick (Prof. Galal Walker) 2015 Chinese App Companies: Operating Conditions and Organizational Needs

Olson, Cassandra (Prof. Galal Walker) 2015 The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute- Trilateral Policy Responses Between China, Japan, and the US 钓鱼岛问题:中美日三国政策的反应

Carr, William (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2015 Examining the Issues Facing Beijing's Urban Integration Plan 论京津籍协同发展所面临着的问题  

Chen, Wan-chen (Prof. Galal Walker) 2013 Toward Designing a Chinese Language Teacher Training Program: An Analysis of Teachers’ Motivation

Yan, Yongyu (Prof. Galal Walker) 2013 Participarting On a Different Platform: View the Chinese Internet as a Platform for Cultural Performances

Draggeim, Alexandra (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2013   网络流行语言与中国社会文化：以贵阳网民为例 (Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang)

Chen, Litong (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2012 Shaoguan Tuhua, A Local Vernacular of Northern Guangdong Province, China: A New Look from a Quantitative and Contact Lingistic Perspective

Chai, Donglin  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  Toward A Program of Acquiring Culture Themes by Beginning Students of Chinese as A Foreign Language.

Jia, Junqing  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012 Toward the Design of Motivating Experiences in a Chinese Language Program: From Beginning to Advanced Levels.

Zhang, Xin  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  Chengyu as Cultural Performances: Insights into Designing Pedagogical Materials for Four-Character Chinese Idioms.

Kim, Teresa Y   (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  Survey in Qingdao: The role of “Mianzi” (face) and “Renqing” (benevolence) in Sino-Japanese Relations 青岛调查：面子与人情在对日外交关系中的作用

Young, David  (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2012   A Change of Concept: Confucianism in Contemporary China

Brooks, Evan  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  The Adaptive Media Strategy of Greenpeace in China 绿色和平组织的媒体策略及其在中国的适应性改变

Greenwalt, Erin  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  Factors Influencing Chinese Consumer Choice of English Training Schools". 影响中国消费者选择英语培训因素分析

Kamensky, John (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2012           Research on the Protection of Chinese Farmers’ Land Rights During Land Expropriation 土地征收中的中国农民地权保护研究

Slaten, Kevin (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  Obscure Terrain: The Rights Defense of Qingdao Internal Migrant Workers

Hegedus, Michael  (Prof. Galal Walker) 2012  The Effect of Public Organizations in Developing the Ethnic Minority Folk Song of Guizhou, China

Khaira, Simran (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2012   The Decline and Revival of Chinese Picture Books

Tierney, Peter (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2012   Corruption in China: Theory, Status Quo and Countermeasures

Young, Jennifer Louise (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2012   Chinese-American Transnational Marriage: Cultural Differences and Martial Satisfaction

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Bibliographical information of 100,000 Chinese dissertations; first 24 pages of content maybe available.

​ National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統

National Central Library (NCL) provides free on-line services to general public on theses and dissertation of academic degrees, including citation information, abstracts and some full-text works.

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HKUST Electronic Theses contains full images of the doctoral dissertations and master's theses for most of our postgraduate students. Access to the database is available globally.

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (1861 - ) The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Abstracts included from July 1980; abstracts for masters theses beginning Spring 1988. Updated monthly. You might also want to look at Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis .

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Chinese Linguistics Theses & Dissertations @ OSU (1965 –  )

M.A. Theses & Ph.D. Dissertations in the Graduate Program in Chinese Linguistics, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) (1971 –  )

Note: Many of the Ph.D. dissertations listed on this webpage are available online as full-text PDF files from OSU Libraries . M.A. theses became available in the OSU Libraries as full-text PDF files beginning in 2009. Ohio State patrons also have free access to full-text PDF files of doctoral dissertations that date from at least the 1980s onwards at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses . Note: Included on this page is information on current faculty members in Chinese linguistics in DEALL (viz., Professors Marjorie K.M. Chan and Zhiguo Xie ) and other DEALL faculty members serving as committee members in Chinese linguistics thesis and dissertation committees. For a list of my advisees only — and those on whose thesis/dissertation committee that I have served on — past and present, see: Students . (Various group photos are also placed there.)

• Bourgerie, Dana Scott. 1987 M.A. thesis. Particles of uncertainty: A discourse approach to the Cantonese final particle.   (Advisor: Timothy Light)
• Bourgerie, Dana Scott. 1990 Ph.D. diss. A quantitative study of sociolinguistic variation in Cantonese. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Butler, Craig. 1990 M.A. thesis. An examination of ‘ dao Place ( qu )’ and ‘ qu Place’ in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor in Au 89-Wi 90: Marjorie K.M. Chan; Advisor for oral defence in Sp 90: Robert Sanders)

• Chao, Fang-yi. 1998 Ph. D. diss. The sound system of the Qieyun : A phonemic interpretation. (Advisor: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh)
• Chen, Litong. 2012 M.A. thesis. Shaoguan Tuhua, a local vernacular of northern Guangdong Province, China: A new look from a quantitative and contact linguistic perspective. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan) (Zhiguo Xie, Committee Member)

• Chiang, Mien-Hwa. 1984 M.A. thesis. Three common reduplicated coordinate conjunctions in Chinese. (Advisor: Timothy Light)
• Chiang, Mien-Hwa. 1992 Ph.D. diss. A study of anaphora in Chinese recipe discourse. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai)
• Chou, Shizhen. 1989 Ph.D. diss. Hong Wu Zheng Yun: Its relation to the Nanjing dialect and its impact on Standard Mandarin. (Advisor: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh)

• Christensen, Matthew. 1994 Ph.D. diss. Variation in spoken and written narrative discourse. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Cockrum, Paul. 2022 M.A. thesis. Taiwanese Southern Min: Identity and written sociolinguistic variation. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Davis, Junko. 2004 M.A. thesis. A Prosodic study of the ‘inverted sentence’ in Beijing Mandarin.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

• Fang, Ning-ning. 1971 M.A. thesis. A study of the 1956 scheme for simplifying Chinese characters. (Advisor: Eugene Ching)
• Fung, Roxana Suk Yee. 2000 Ph.D. diss. Final particles in Standard Cantonese: Semantic extension and pragmatic inference.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan) (Timothy Light, External Committee Member)
• Gilliland, Joshua. 2006 M.A. thesis. Language attitudes and ideologies in Shanghai, China.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

• He, Baozhang. 1985 M.A. thesis. The two constructions NP + VP and VP + de + NP in Chinese. (Advisor: Timothy Light)
• He, Baozhang. 1992 Ph.D. diss. Situation types and aspectual classes of verbs in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)

• Hu, Wenze. 1989 M.A. thesis. The inverted sentence in the Beijing dialect. (Advisor: James H-Y. Tai)
• Hu, Wenze. 1995 Ph.D. diss. Functional perspectives and Chinese word order. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Jagacinski, Ngampit. 1987 Ph.D. diss. Tai Lue of Xishuanebanna in China’s Yunnan Province: Description and a study of the OV order in the Pau construction. (Advisor: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh)

• Kang, Hana. 2004 M.A. thesis. Heritage language maintenance, acculturation, and identity: Chinese and Korean 1.5 generation immigrants in New Jersey.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Kang, Hana. 2010 Ph.D. diss. Computer-based writing and paper-based writing: A study of beginning-level and intermediate-level Chinese learners’ writing. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan; Co-Advisor: Alan Hirvela, Education)

• King, Brian. 1989 Ph.D. diss. The conceptual structure of emotional experience in Chinese. (Advisor: James H-Y. Tai)
• Lee, Ok Joo. 2000 M.A. thesis. The pragmatics and intonation of ma -particle questions in Mandarin. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Lee, Ok Joo. 2005 Ph.D. diss. The prosody of questions in Beijing Mandarin.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

• Lin, Huey Hannah. 2005 Ph.D. diss. Contextualizing linguistic politeness in Chinese — A socio-pragmatic approach with examples from persuasive sales talks in Taiwan Mandarin.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Liu, Cheng-hui. 1988 M.A. thesis. Analytical study of the Lingbao dialect. (Advisor: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)

• McGinnis, Scott. 1990 Ph.D. diss. A pragmatic analysis of Mandarin interrogatives: Data from modern Taiwan drama. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Miracle, William Charles. 1987 M.A. thesis. Chinese/English code switching: A preliminary inquiry. (Advisor: Timothy Light)
• Miracle, William Charles. 1991 Ph.D. diss. Discourse markers in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: James H-Y. Tai)

• Ratté, Alexander Takenobu. 2011 M.A. thesis. Contact-induced phonological change in Taiwanese. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Riha, Helena. 2006 M.A. thesis. The morphology and semantics of Roman letter words in Mandarin Chinese.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

• Sergent, Wallace K., Jr. 1990 Ph.D. diss. A study of the oral reading strategies of advanced and highly advanced second language readers of Chinese. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Seung, Shauna. 1998 M.A. thesis. Towards accuracy in Chinese tonal production: Seven case studies.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

• Shen, Jingdi. 2018 M.A. thesis. Regional lexical variation in Modern Written Chinese: Analysis and characterization using geo-tagged social media. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Shi, Jianguo. 1994 Ph.D. diss. Shuyang phonology. (Advisor: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)

• Tang, Jian. 1996 Ph.D. diss. Prototypes in Lesser Seal scripts (China, ca. 221 BC – AD 220).   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Wang, Lianqing. 1994 Ph.D. diss. Origin and development of classifiers in Chinese. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Wang, Qian. 2015. M.A. thesis. Focus placement and interpretations of bare gradable adjectives in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: Zhiguo Xie) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)

• Wu, Sue-mei. 1994 M.A. thesis. Instrumentality in Classical Chinese: A study of the function word yi with special reference to The Confucian Analects. (Advisor: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh)
• Wu, Sue-mei. 1997 Ph.D. diss. The coverbs in Classical Chinese. (Advisors: Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh and Yan-shuan Lao) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)

• Xu, Wang. 2006 M.A. thesis. A comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a new model for sign language comparison.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan) (James H-Y. Tai, External Committee Member)
• Yan, Jing. 2008 Ph.D. diss. Social variation of Vernacular Written Cantonese in Guangzhou (Canton City), China.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

• Yang, Seojin. 2023 Ph.D. diss. Language, gender, and identity: The case of sajiao communication style. (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan) (Mineharu Nakayama & Zhiguo Xie, Committee Members)
• Yang, Yan. 2003 M.A. thesis. Ne in the novel Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber): Gender, social status and a sentence-final particle.   (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Ye, Jinwei. 2021. M.A. thesis.  Cross-categorical intensification: The case of Cantonese -gwai2. (Advisor: Zhiguo Xie) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)
• Ye, Xuan. 2023. M.A. thesis. Flowers of Shanghai : A dialectology perspective on the 1998 film . (Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan) (Patricia Sieber, Committee Member)
• Zhou, Lieting. 1994 M.A. thesis. On the occurrence conditions of localizers in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: James H.-Y. Tai) (Marjorie K.M. Chan, Committee Member)

Theses & Disserations with Chinese Linguistics Topics in Other OSU Units (1965 –  )

• Ao, Benjamin Xiaoping. 1993 Ph.D. diss. Phonetics and phonology of Nantong Chinese. (Advisor: David Odden, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Chang, Chiung-Yun. 2010 Ph.D. diss. Dialect differences in the production and perception of Mandarin Chinese tones. (Advisor Robert Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Dai, Xiang-ling. 1992 Ph.D. diss. Chinese morphology and its interface with syntax. (Advisor: Arnold M. Zwicky, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: James H-Y. Tai)
• Dong, Xinran. 2009 Ph.D. diss. Requests in academic settings in English, Russian and Chinese. (Advisor: Daniel E. Collins, Slavic & East European L & L; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)
• Elliott, Dale Eugene. 1965 M.A. thesis. Interrogation in English and Mandarin Chinese . (Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore/William S-Y. Wang (?), Linguistics)
• Fon, Yee-Jean Janice. 2002 Ph.D. diss. A cross-linguistic study on syntactic and discourse boundary cues in spontaneous speech. (Advisor: Keith Johnson, Linguistics)
• Gao, Qian. 2001 Ph.D. diss. Argument structure, HPSG, and Chinese grammar. (Advisor: Carl J. Pollard, Linguistics)
• Gomes, Skylor Evan. 2020 M.A. thesis. Chinese government response to the 2019 Hong Kong Protests: A corpus-based lexical study. (Interdiscplinary M.A. in East Asian Studies, EASC; Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)
• Hashimoto, Anne Yue. 1966 Ph.D. diss. Embedding structures in Mandarin. (Advisor: William S-Y. Wang, Linguistics)
• Hashimoto, Mantaro J. 1965 Ph.D. diss. Phonology of Ancient Chinese. (Advisor: William S-Y. Wang, Linguistics)
• Huang, Shuan-Fan. 1966 M.A. thesis. Subject and object in Mandarin. (Advisor: William S-Y. Wang, Linguistics)
• Huang, Shuan-Fan. 1971 Ph.D. diss. A study of adverbs. (Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore, Linguistics)
• Huang, Tsan. 2004 Ph.D. diss. Language-specificity in auditory perception of Chinese tones. (Advisor: Keith Johnson, Linguistics; DEALL Commmittee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Hung, Tsun-Hui. 2011 Ph.D. diss. One music? Two musics? How many musics? Cognitive ethnomusicological, behavioral, and fMRI study on vocal and instrumental rhythm processing. (Advisor: Udo Will, Music; DEALL Commmittee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Lee, Gina. 1993 Ph.D. diss. Comparative, diachronic and experimental perspectives on the interaction between tone and vowel in standard Cantonese. (Advisor: Brian Joseph, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Li, Fangfang. 2008 Ph.D. diss. The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics)
• Lin, Hwei-Bing. 1982 M.A. thesis. Comparison of the differences in tone sandhi among slow speech, normal speech and fast speech in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: Robert A. Fox, Linguistics)
• Lin, Yuhan. 2018. Ph.D. diss. Stylistic Variation and Social Perception in Second Dialect Acquisition. (Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Lu, Hsiao Tung. 1972 Ph.D. diss. The verb-verb construction in Mandarin Chinese. (Advisor: Arnold M. Zwicky, Linguistics)
• Lu, Xiaofei. 2006 Ph.D. diss. Hybrid models or Chinese unknown word resolution. (Advisor: Detmar Meurers, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Pan, Ho-hsien. 1994 Ph.D. diss. T he voicing contrasts of Taiwanese (Amoy) initial stops: Data from adults and children. (Advisor: Robert A. Fox, Speech and Hearing Science)
• Peng, Shu-hui. 1995 Ph.D. diss. Phonetic implementation and perception of segmental coarticulation and tone sandhi. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics) (Marjorie K.M. Chan was a Committee Member from DEALL but was unable to attend the oral defence.)
• Riha, Helena. 2008 Ph.D. diss. Lettered words and Roman letter characters in Chinese writing: A study of alphabetic writing in Chinese newswires. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Sheu, Ying-yu. 1990 Ph.D. diss. Topics in a Categorial Theory of Chinese syntax. (Advisor: David Dowty, Linguistics; DEALL Commmittee Member: James H-Y. Tai)
• Shih, Barbara Mei. 1966 M.A. thesis. Negation in Chinese. (Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore, Linguistics)
• Shih, Ya-ting. 2012 Ph.D. diss. Taiwanese-Guoyu bilingual children and adults’ sibilant production patterns. (Advisor: Leslie C. Moore, Teaching and Learning, Education; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Thompson, Sandra A. 1965 M.A. thesis. English and Mandarin Chinese: Definite and indefinite determiners and modifying clause structures. (Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore, Linguistics)
• Thompson, Sandra A. 1969 Ph.D. diss. On relative clause structure in relation to the nature of sentence complexity. (Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore, Linguistics)
• Unkefer, James Bruce. 1982. Hakka Chinese tones: An acoustic and perceptual study. M.A. thesis. Advisor Robert Fox, Linguistics)
• Wong, Wai Yi Peggy. 2006 Ph.D. diss. Syllable fusion in Hong Kong Cantonese spontaneous speech. (Advisor: Mary E. Beckman, Linguistics; Co-Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan, DEALL)
• Xu, Lei. 2007 Ph.D. diss. Phonological variation and word recognition in continuous speech. (Advisor: Shari Speer, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Yan, Qingyang. 2017 Ph.D. diss. Factors influencing generalization and maintenance of cross-category imitation of Mandarin regional variants. (Advisor: Cynthia Clopper, Linguistics)
• Yang, Jing. 2013 Ph.D. diss. Acoustic properties of vowel production in Mandarin-English bilingual and corresponding monolingual children aged 3-7 years . (Advisor: Robert Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Zhang, Jennifer Qian. 2016. Ph.D. diss. Nonsibilant fricative acquisition by bilingual Guoyu-Taiwanese Southern Min children. (Advisor: Mary Beckman)
• Zhang, Zheng-sheng. 1988 Ph.D. diss. Tone and tone sandhi in Chinese. (Advisor: Arnold Zwicky, Linguistics; DEALL Committee Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)
• Zhu, Yuhong. 2023 Ph.D. diss. Tone, metrical structure and intonation in Suzhou Chinese: Data, theory, typological implications. (Advisor: Björn Koehnlein, Linguistics; DEALL Committe Member: Marjorie K.M. Chan)

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Former Graduate Students in the M.A. Non-Thesis Option of the Graduate Program in Chinese Linguistics, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), OSU

• Cao, Huiyi. (M.A. 1992) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan
• Choi, Bumyong. (M.A. 2004) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan
• Choi, Ho Jung. (Au 2005 – Sp 2006) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan
• Frerichs, Warren. (Au 1999 – Wi 2001) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan
• He, Yi. (M.A. 2008) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan
• Huan, Sha (M.A. 2017) – Advisor: Zhiguo Xie
• Jiang, Ping. (M.A. 1987) – Advisor: Frank Hsueh (?)
• Peng, Rui. (M.A. 1999) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan
• Zheng, Rongbin (M.A. 2009) – Advisor: Marjorie K.M. Chan

Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics

The Ph.D. program is designed to prepare students for a doctoral degree in Chinese linguistics.

Students should consult the most up-to-date version of the degree plan on the Stanford Bulletin  as well as the EALC Graduate Handbook . Each student should meet with their faculty advisor at least once per quarter to discuss the degree requirements and their progress.

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Candidacy is the most important University milestone on the way to the Ph.D. degree. Admission to candidacy rests both on the fulfillment of department requirements and on an assessment by department faculty that the student has the potential to successfully complete the Ph.D.

Following University policy ( GAP 4.6.1 ), students are expected to complete the candidacy requirements by Spring Quarter of the second year of graduate study.

Pre-Candidacy Requirements

• CHINLANG 103 - Third-Year Modern Chinese, Third Quarter (5 units)
• CHINLANG 103B - Third-Year Modern Chinese for Bilingual Speakers, Third Quarter (3 units)
• CHINA 208 - Advanced Classical Chinese: Philosophical Texts (3-5 units)
• CHINA 209 - Advanced Classical Chinese: Historical Narration (2-5 units)
• CHINA 210 - Advanced Classical Chinese: Literary Essays (2-5 units)
• EALC 201 - Proseminar in East Asian Humanities I: Skills and Methodologies (3 units)
• CHINA 290  - Research in Chinese Linguistics (2-3 units)
• Four courses numbered above 200 in the field of China studies, at least two of which must be listed with the CHINA  subject code, and the other two of which may be in different sub-fields such as anthropology, art history, history, philosophy, political science, religious studies, or another relevant field, as approved by the student’s advisor.

All doctoral students must complete an MA qualifying paper. An MA thesis is accepted instead of a qualifying paper for students initially admitted as EALC MA students. Students seeking an MA en route to the PhD must secure approval from the primary advisor and submit an MA thesis.

A graded MA qualifying paper or thesis must be submitted to the DGS and SSO with an accompanying note from the student’s primary advisor by week five of spring quarter of the second year of study for the annual review and candidacy decision.

During the quarter when students complete the MA qualifying paper or thesis (25-30 pages), they must enroll in EALC 299 .

Teaching Requirement

• DLCL 301 - The Learning and Teaching of Second Languages (3 units)
• Demonstrate pedagogical proficiency by serving as a teaching assistant for at least three quarters, starting no later than autumn quarter of the third year of graduate study. The department may approve exceptions to the timing of the language teaching requirement.

Post-Candidacy Requirements

Demonstrate proficiency in at least one supporting language (beyond the near-native level required in Chinese and English) to be chosen in consultation with the primary advisor according to the candidate’s specific research goals. For this supporting language (typically Japanese, Korean, or a European language), students must be proficient at a second-year level at the minimum; a higher level of proficiency may be required depending on the advisor’s recommendation. Reading proficiency must be certified through a written examination or an appropriate amount of coursework to be determined on a case-by-case basis. This requirement must be fulfilled by the end of the fourth year of graduate study.

Students in Chinese linguistics must take at least one literature course.

Complete two relevant seminars at the 300 level. EALC 200  may be substituted for one of these two seminars.

Pass three comprehensive written examinations, one of which tests the candidate’s methodological competence in the relevant discipline. The remaining two fields are chosen, with the approval of the student’s advisor, from the following: Chinese literature, Japanese literature, Korean literature, archaeology, anthropology, art history, comparative literature, communication, history, linguistics, philosophy, and religious studies. With the advisor’s approval, a PhD minor in a supporting field may be deemed equivalent to completing one of these three examinations.

Students should submit a dissertation prospectus before advancing to Terminal Graduate Registration (TGR) status. The prospectus should comprehensively describe the dissertation project and include sections on the project rationale, key research questions, contributions to the field, a literature review, a chapter-by-chapter outline, a projected timeline, and a bibliography.

Pass the University Oral Examination (dissertation defense). General regulations governing the oral examination are found in Graduate Academic Policies and Procedures ( GAP 4.7.1 ). The candidate is examined on questions related to the dissertation after acceptable parts have been completed in draft form.

Following university policy ( GAP 4.8.1 ), submit a dissertation demonstrating the ability to undertake original research based on primary and secondary materials in Chinese.

Master of Arts in the Field of Chinese Language and Culture

The only master's degree program of its kind in the greater Washington, DC, area, the MA in Chinese language and culture offers students the opportunity to deepen intellectual and cultural understanding of China and to learn the Chinese language. The program prepares students for careers in fields such as academia, consulting, government, business, nonprofit, and education. Being in the heart of the nation’s capital, the program provides students with the opportunity to interact with many leading organizations, business headquarters, consulting firms, and government and media agencies. A variety of extracurricular activities are available to enrich the student learning experience.

Program highlights include:

• Customized curriculum to suit personal interests and career goals.
• Close mentorship from well-established scholars and award-winning teachers in the department.
• Competitive teaching assistant or internship positions.
• Numerous China-related events and lectures on and off campus.
• Preparation for the pursuit of either a professional career or doctoral studies.
• Access to the many resources available in Washington, DC.
• Potential for building a professional network to enhance career opportunities.

Visit the program website for additional information.

Supporting documents not submitted online should be mailed to:

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Graduate Studies The George Washington University 801 22nd Street NW, Phillips Hall 107 Washington DC 20052

For additional information about the admissions process visit the Columbian College  of Arts and Sciences  Frequently Asked Questions  page.

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The following requirements must be fulfilled:

The general requirements stated under  Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Programs .

Non-thesis option—33 credits, including up to 6 credits in Chinese language proficiency courses, at least 18 credits in courses in the field, and 3 to 9 credits in elective courses. 

Thesis option—30 credits, including up to 6 credits in Chinese language proficiency courses, at least 18 credits in courses in the field, at least 3 credits in elective coursework, and 3 credits in CHIN 6999 Thesis Research .

* Or an alternative pre-approved course.

** Students must submit a research proposal before enrolling in CHIN 6550 .

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Chinese language learning in the twenty-first century: towards a digital ecosystem?

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Chinese heritage language maintenance: a grandparents' perspective

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• Zhang, Junhui
• Mekhala Sarkar (Internal/Supervisor)
• With the increased mobility of today's world, trans-border migration has become a common phenomenon. Immigrants bring their heritage languages and cultures to the host countries. The issue of heritage language maintenance becomes more and more significant. However, the issue has not received much research attention until recently and various research questions remain unanswered. This study attempts to fill a research gap by investigating the influence of Chinese grandparents on the Chinese development and maintenance of their preschool-aged grandchildren during their stays in Montreal. Since it is a very common Chinese cultural tradition that grandparents take care of their grandchildren as primary caregivers both inside China and abroad, it can be assumed that Chinese grandparents have an influence on the Chinese development and maintenance of their grandchildren. However, due to the paucity of the research, factors such as what the grandparents' attitude are toward Chinese maintenance, how they are involved in the Chinese development and maintenance of their grandchildren, and what their influence on the Chinese maintenance is, are not well understood. Adopting a qualitative research methodology, this study attempts to explore the role of Chinese grandparents in the Chinese development and maintenance of their preschool-aged grandchildren in Montreal, Canada. Analysis of interviews with the Chinese grandparents and parents provided evidence that the Chinese grandparents played a significant role in the Chinese development and maintenance of their grandchildren. The grandparents helped their grandchildren acquire oral and initial literacy skills. The role of Chinese grandparents as educating agents was of great importance to their grandchildren's development and maintenance of Chinese as a heritage language. These research findings have important implications for Chinese maintenance as a heritage langua
• Grâce à la mobilité améliorée dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, la migration transfrontalière est devenue un phénomène commun. Les immigrants apportent leurs langues et cultures traditionnelles aux pays d'accueil. La question de la conservation du patrimoine linguistique devient donc de plus en plus importante. Toutefois, ce dossier ne reçut pas beaucoup d'attention de la part des chercheurs jusqu'à tout récemment et plusieurs questions de recherche demeurent sans réponse. Cette étude tente de remplir un vide dans la recherche existante en examinant l'influence des grands-parents chinois sur le développement et le maintien de la langue chinoise chez leurs petits-enfants d'âge préscolaire lors du passage des grands-parents à Montréal. Puisque c'est une tradition culturelle chinoise courante que les grands-parents prennent soins de leurs petits-enfants en tant que premiers pourvoyeurs de soins en Chine et à l'étranger, on peut assumer que les grands-parents chinois ont une influence sur le développement et le maintien de la langue chinoise chez leurs petits-enfants. Toutefois, dû au manque de recherche dans le domaine, des facteurs tels l'attitude des grands-parents envers le maintien de la langue chinoise, comment ils sont impliqués dans le développement et le maintien de la langue chinoise chez leurs petits-enfants, et quel est leur influence sur le maintien de la langue chinoise ne sont pas bien compris.Utilisant une méthode de recherche qualitative, cette étude tente d'explorer le rôle des grands-parents chinois dans le développement et le maintien de la langue chinoise chez leurs petits-enfants d'âge préscolaire à Montréal, Canada. L'analyse d'entretiens avec des grands-parents et des parents chinois, a fournit la preuve que les grands-parents chinois ont joué un rôle important dans le développement et le maintien de la langue chinoise chez leurs petits-enfants. Les grand
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Essays on the Chinese Language (1889)

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE,

T. WATTERS.

Presbyterian Mission Press.

The first beginning of this book was made in Peking more than a quarter of a century ago. It was at the suggestion of the lamented Sir Frederick Bruce , then H. M.'s Minister to China, that the study of the word Tao was taken up, and at the same time the survey of the Chinese language in general was begun. It was originally intended to take in a number of subjects not treated of in the pages which follow. But as the work proceeded it was found impossible to carry out the original design. Still the author ventures to hope that what is here given will help or interest students of the Chinese language and form a basis for further researches.

Imperfect drafts of part of the book have already appeared in the Chinese Recorder and the China Review .

It affords the author much pleasure to acknowledge openly his deep gratitude to his friend, W. R. Carles , Esq., H. M.'s Consul for Chinkiang. The hard and irksome task of correcting the proofs was undertaken by Mr. Carles and carried out by him during the whole time the work was going through the press. The Superintendent of the Mission Press also has done all in his power to diminish the number of printer's errors. These, however, are still too many, and the author regrets that the book has to appear marred by these and other errors for which the printers are not responsible.

Newchwang , September , 1889.

SOME WESTERN OPINIONS.

Number of those who use the Chinese language, p. 1; sphere of the language, 1; Chinese little known to Western scholars, 2; different opinions, 3; some theories as to origin and family relationship, 4; Golius, Leibniz, Farrar, 4; John Webb, 5; early Roman Catholic missionaries, 7; Edkins, Marshman, Chalmers, 8; Logan, G. von der Gabelenz, 9; de Lacouperie, 11; Fried Müller, 12; some opinions on Chinese from the morphological point of view, F. von Schlegel, 12; Bopp, W. von Humboldt, 13; Schleicher, Pott, L. Adam, Max Müller, 14; Grube, 15; some opinions on the contents and general character of the language, 15; Semedo, 16; Premare, Amyot, 16; W. von Humboldt, Steinthal, Whitney, Renan, 17; materials for correct general judgment not yet ready, 19.

THE CULTIVATION OF THEIR LANGUAGE BY THE CHINESE.

This chapter does not pretend to give a full account of the cultivation of their language by native authors, p. 20; early use of writing, 21; the state interpreters in Chow period, 22; cultivation of the language in this period, 23; Ch'in Shi Huang Ti's action, 26; the scholars of the Han dynasty, 28; the Buddhist missionaries from India, 36; the scholars of the Three Kingdoms ​ period, 38; the works on the language in the Chin period, 39; the North and South dynasties, 42; the Sin dynasty, 46; the T'ang dynasty, 48; Buddhist monks on the language, 51; invention of printing, [1] 54; writers under the Sung dynasty, 55; the Mongol or Yuan dynasty, 73; works on the language during the Ming period, 78; those of the present dynasty, 84; treatises to teach natives of Kuangtung and Fuhkeen the Mandarin language, 97.

CHINESE OPINIONS ABOUT THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE.

ON THE INTERJECTIONAL AND IMITATIVE ELEMENTS IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.

Man's conscious control does not extend to the use of emotional and imitative expressions, p. 128; treatment of these by grammarians and philologists, 128; by native scholars in ​ China, 129; Farrar's "elements of articulate speech," 130; Chinese use of interjections such as ai-ya , 131; uses of ai , 133; vocal gestures, 135; in some cases such expressions are real words or their ruins, 136; blowing of wind, rain, 137; imitations of animal cries, 139; of involuntary human sounds as coughing and sneezing, 142; defects and peculiarities of utterance, 145; child's language, 147; expressions metaphorically imitative, 149.

THE WORD TAO.

Neither foreign nor native opinions as to the resources of the Chinese language to be trusted, p. 152; the word Tao to be investigated, 152; cautions with reference to what is stated in this chapter, 153; Tao does not give fair specimen of uses of a word, 153; writing and pronunciation of the word, 153; synonyms, 154; combinations with sense of road , 154; special phrases connected with meaning of road , 160; to travel, 161; right of way, 161; from, district, 162; orbit, course, 164; ray, band, line, time, 166; Tao as a numerative or classifier, 167; in the sense of means and manner, 168; expedient, 169; attainments, characteristics, 170; course of conduct, 172; state or condition, 175; to lead or guide, 177; doctrine, religion, 180; truth, wisdom, 181; principles, 183; to rule, government, institutions, 186; good government, order, 189; law, standard, &c., 190; to talk, discourse, &c., 192; the Ultimate Principle , 197; nature or law of creatures, 201; T'ien-tao' s meanings, 202; man's moral constitution, 206; conscience, 208; Tao-hsin and Jen-hsin , 209; Reason, 211; duty, 214; relationship, 217; essentials, sum, 219; Tao as title of person, 221; source or cause, reason, 222; type, emblem, 223; ideal moral perfection, 225; ideal state of society, 228; Nature, 229; Miscellaneous, 232; Taoist use of the word, 235 Mahometan, 239; Christian, 240.

TERMS RELATING TO DEATH AND BURIAL.

The Chinese language is rich in some respects and poor in others, p. 245; words and phrases connected with Pig, 246; names for year, 249; for periods of human life, 252; terms for death, 257; for dying , 259; to die, 262; to die prematurely, 274; to die ill, 279; the dead, 282; terms for ceremonies on behalf of the dead, 292; terms for customs to be observed by mourners, 297; terms for the coffin and its parts, 299; the bier, 303; the site for the grave, 305; terms for burial, 307; for temporary resting of coffin, 309; the grave and tomb, 310; the cemetery, 318; terms for mourning, 321.

FOREIGN WORDS IN CHINESE.

Foreign words in Chinese not numerous, 328; Barbarians, 329; commodities known by names of countries, 329; An-hsi, Chiam-pi, Ho-lan, 330; Greek and Roman terms, 331; Spanish and Portuguese, 333; Dutch and German, 334; French, 334; English, 335; Malay, 341; Persian, 347; Arabic, 352; Turkish, 356; Manchu, 362; Mongolian, 369; Tibetan, 375.

Chap. VIII.

THE INFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.

The influence of Buddhism on Chinese only sketched in outline, p. 379; intercourse with India before the Han period asserted but not proven, 379; Chang Ch'ien gives report of India, 380; first missionaries from India, 380; effects of Buddhism on Chinese like those of Christianity and Mahometanism on other languages, 380; the Chinese were taught Sanskrit by the ​ missionaries, 381; books were written, 382; the Chinese were also taught how to study their own language, 383; astronomy and other sciences taught, 383; the foreign missionaries were not all from India, 384; different dialects, Indian and Chinese, 385; Indian words introduced at different periods, 385; words relating to the Buddhist religion: the objects of worship and reverence—Buddhas, P'usas, Disciples and Patriarchs, 387; Indian gods, Brahmā and Indra, 394; Yama and Māra, 395; other supernatural beings, Rakshas, Yakshas, Gandharvas, Asurs, 396; Chaṇḍi, 399; Buddhist heavens and hells, 400; names for professed Buddhists and lay members, 401; Brahmans, 406; terms relating to sacred buildings, 407; monks' robes and bowl, 412; alms and alms givers, 413; cremation, 415; Nirvāṇa, 416; relics, 417; technical terms such as Prajnā-Pāramita, Bodhi, 418; Yü-lan-hui, 421; Nan-wu, 422; T'o-lo-ni, 423; Buddhist sacred books and the material and way of chanting, 424; grammatical geographical terms and names of places, 425; names of numbers and measures, 430; names of minerals and precious stones, 432; names for trees, flowers and vegetable medicines and other products, 435; names of animals, 442.

THE INFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE (Continued.)

New Chinese terms added by translation from the Sanskrit, p. 445; mode of proceeding adopted by early translators, 445; names of Buddhas and P'usas, Sākyamuni, Jan-têng, Kuan-yin, 446; Kei-ku-tu, 449; Lun-wang and Fa-lun, 449; Buddhist clergy, 450; geographical and topographical names, 450; objects associated with Buddhist monks, 452; San-tsang, 453; Chin-kang, 454; San-shêng, 454; other technical terms as Tao-pi-an, Mie-tu, 456; new expressions which are not translations, 458; Ch'u-chia and similar terms, 458; transmit robe and bowl, 460; transmit lamp, 450; sitting cross-legged, 461; wood-fish, 461; Name for ​ monastery, 462; terms for saluting, 462; terms for begging, 463; terms relating to transmigration, 464; terms for services on behalf of the dead, 464; other terms from Buddhist religious teaching, 466; sea of misery and ship of mercy, 466.; terms for death, 466; Sui-hsi and Fang-hao-kuang, 467; miscellaneous terms which include name of Buddha, 468; some which have Kuan-yin, 469; Lo-han, 471; the Ho-shang, 471; Mâra, 471; Sêng-lu, 472; new meanings given to old expressions, 472; Confucianists complain of Buddhist misuse of hsing , hsin , &c., 473; new meanings for fa , 473; chiao , 474; Buddhist uses of Tao, 475; Hao-shi , 478; Kung-te , 479 ; pu-shi , 479; terms about mortal life, new meanings to shêng and shi , 480; Wu-ch'ang , 482; belief in Karma affected some words, 483; wandering ghosts, 484; names of sacred places, 485; various instances, 486; la , a year; t'ien , heaven, 487; Ch'u , to feel, 488; Hsiang , Fang-pien , 489; Ju-i , 490; effects of Buddhism illustrated by proverbs and common sayings, 491; proverbs in which Buddha's name occurs, 492; some in which that of Kuan-yin occurs, 493; P'usa, 494; Ho-shang, 494; monasteries and the monk's garb, 495; Karma, 495; the king of the dead, 495; heaven and hell, 495; the maṇi, 496; universal sovereign, 496.

• ↑ See Errata.

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