Essays on Writing and Language in Honor - Sino-Platonic Papers

Schriiffestschn!: Ersays in Honor of John DeFrancis
Lu Keng, 1985, Hu Yaobang Fangwen Ji, An Interview with Hu Yaobang;
Pai Shing Monthly, Hong KonglSino Daily Express, New York.
Shiu, Yu-Ling and Huang, Chu-Ren, 1989, A Unification-based Approach
to Mandarin Questions, proceedings of Rocling 11.
White, Jeoffrey W., 1987, "Proverbs and cultural models" p.151-172 in
Culhual MOdeLs in Language and mought edited by Dorothy Holland
and Naorni Quinn, Cambridge University Press 1987.
Zhang XinXin and Sang Ye, Beijing Ren 1986, Shanghai Wenyi Chuban
She, Shanghai.
I wish to thank the native speakers of English and Chinese whose reactions
to the "text" under study constitute part of this paper. Their names are
listed below alphabetically:
Richard Barz, Dani Botsman, Marybeth Clark, Anthony Diller, John
Fincher, Leta Fincher, Drew Gerstle, John Jorgenson, Ann Kumar, Lydian
Meredith, Virginia Matheson, Helen Musa, Mabel Lee and Anthony Street.
Chen Jie, Chen Shuchen, He Baogang, Liu Min, Xie Chuanliang, Xie
Guanghua, Li Xinhua, Bai Yan.
Huang Guoying of the Central China Institute of Technology in Wuhan
provided his reaction via correspondence (March 1989).
I am grateful to Sang Ye, the co-recorder of the original text for discussing
the original situation with me and to Bill Jemer for reflections on the
translator's art.
Thanks are also due to Philip Kuhn for the apt analogy of McDonald's
Hamburgers to Standard Talk: "It's like McDonald's hamburgers. It is
standard fare, no variations; thus the cook never makes a mistake".