"As a working Sinologist, each time I look up a word in my Webster's or Kenkyusha's I experience a sharp pang of depri…"

"On July 4 1983, I met with officials of the Committee for the Reform of the Written Language in Peking. They informed…"

"If only there were a lexicographer of Liang Shih-ch'iu's ability who also had the perspicuity to arrange his dictiona…"

"There is a widespread public misperception, particularly among the New Age sector, that the Chinese word for “crisis”…"

"There may be instances in world history where a dominant or highly influential elite who were few in number were none…"

"Victor has always cast his nets widely, and he could routinely amaze us with observations far afield from the Chinese…"

"Mair claims to be interested, for a variety of noble reasons, in “the search for the Indo-Europeans and their homelan…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"