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George Kennedy - romanization of Chinese topolects


m.ellison

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This is a question about George Kennedy the Yale sinologist -- as I remember he invented his own system for romanizing Chinese. This was supposed to work for multiple topolects. However, I have forgotten any of the details and the books are out of print. Does anyone have any information about this?

The texts should be one of the following, but I cannot remember which:

George A Kennedy. Interpretation of the Ch'un-Ch'iu. JAOS v62 #1 (1942) 40-48

George A Kennedy. ZH Guide: An Introduction to Sinology. Far Eastern 1953

George A Kennedy (ed Li). Selected Works of George A Kennedy. Far Eastern 1964

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JOAS is a periodical (Journal of Asian Studies), and should be available for copying at any library with a decent Chinese section. Go to your local (university) library, if they don't have this issue of this periodical, they can request them for loan from another library. The same goes for books, actually.

Good luck!

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