Product Description: A compilation of first-language speaker populations and other data of all the non-Han languages and dialects of China (including Taiwan) identified as of the end of 1998. It makes available in English information about these populations and contains data on newly identified languages and dialects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A course for beginning language students uses conversation to teach Chinese.

Product Description: This work discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan county...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This general introduction to the study of Chinese traces the language's history from its beginnings in the second millennium B.C. to the present, and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)