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

A translation of the quadrisyllabic poem:
s~h~ilfft~~h~!:
Ersq in Honor of John &Francis
On Professor DeFrancis' Eightieth Birthday
Linguistic authority Young people's teacher
A cultural bridge Everyone admires
The (Chinese) year Xinwei Presented by Yang Fu-sen
A translation of the vernacular poem:
On Professor DeFrancis' Eightieth Birthday
You are not only an authority on linguistics,
You are also young people's teacher;
For promoting mutual understanding between China and America,
You have become a cultural bridge.
199 1 Presented by Yang Fu-sen @chard Fu-sen Yang)