Description
Childhood during Ch'ing Dynasty; Boxer Indemnity student, Cornell; Ph.D., Harvard, 1918; teaching, Cornell, Harvard, and Tsing Hua College; interpreter for Bertrand Russell, Dora Black, John Dewey; developing National Romanization dialect surveys in Chinese provinces; teaching, Hawaii, Yale, 1938-41; the Harvard Chinese dictionary project; Army Chinese Language School, 1942-45; Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese, 1947; teaching, UC Berkeley, 1947-60; dialect studies and language reform; 1973 meeting with Chou En-lai. Appended bibliography compiled by Anwar S. Dil. Video-tape. 30 min.