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Note: Reflections on Chinese Language Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Frederick W. Mote
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The study of Chinese differs in some important respects from the study of the other languages that figure importantly in American college curricula. This is because the structure and nature of the language itself are so different, and because Chinese culture is so distinct. Santayana said that to learn another language is to acquire another soul; we might add that in the case of Chinese there is less certainty about which is the possessor and which the possessed.

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Symposium on Chinese Studies and the Disciplines
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 1964 , pp. 591 - 594
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964

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