Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1980

Recent Publications of the University The Chinese University Press published the following titles in the academic year 1979-1980. Titles in Chinese On Chinese Linguistics By Chou Fa-kao This is a collection of four lectures/article on Chinese linguistics: ‘On Chinese linguistics, its past, present and future', '20th century Chinese linguistics', ‘Directions of Chinese language study— the develop ment of grammar', and The problem of bringing order to the written Chinese characters'. The author elaborated in these lectures/article on the special features of traditional Chinese linguistics, periodiza tion of Chinese linguistics and the characteristics of each period, and the development of phonology, semasiology, dialect study and especially grammar in the study of 20th century Chinese linguistics. A Comprehensive Bibliography o f Chinese Trans lations o fJapaneseBooks Edited by Tam Yue-him with Saneto Keishu as Editorial Consultant and Ogawa Hiroshi asCo-editor Included in this Bibliography are over six thousand titles of Chinese translations of Japanese books published in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and other places in 1833-1978. General publications as well as academic publications in the fields of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, onceproven to be translations from Japanese, are listed to make the Bibliography as comprehensive as possible, in order to reflect truly this aspect of the Sino-Japanese cultural relations in modern times. Educational Implications o fPiagetian Theories By S. L. Kong The life history and research methods of Jean Piaget,the Swisspsychologist, are given in the opening chapter of this book. This is followed by an elabora tion on the theories of cognitive development in psychology. The application of cognitive psychology to the bringing up of infants, curriculum design and teaching for all levels of education from kindergarten to secondary school is discussed, and the current trend of practice in education is also examined. A ll theories are illustrated with examples from the experience of Chinese readers. A Glossary o f Anthropological Terms Edited and translated by Department ofAnthropology and Social Research Centre Common English anthropological terms and some German, French and Japanese entries are rendered into Chinese in this Glossary. 2,408 single and compound words were selected from the four sub-disciplines of anthropology: social-cultural anthropology, bio-physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics, with special emphasis on the first. However, as a result of double entry, the total number of entries is 3,808. A Grammar o f Spoken Chinese By Y. R. Chao, translated by Ting Pang-hsin This is the most complete and systematic grammar on spoken Chinese ever published. Though mainly written for Kuo-yu , it is, for the most part, also applicable to all Chinese dialects as well as classical Chinese. The author has adopted the immediate con stituent or phrase structure analysis of structuralism 43