Chinese Linguist, Phonologist, Composer and Author : oral history transcript / tape recorded interviews conducted 1974 by Rosemary Levenson for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1977 : and related material, 1974-1977.

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Chinese Linguist, Phonologist, Composer and Author : oral history transcript / tape recorded interviews conducted 1974 by Rosemary Levenson for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1977 : and related material, 1974-1977.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26649886

Early life and education in China; student years in the U.S.; interest in linguistics; work as interpreter for Bertrand Russell and Dora Black in China; linguistic studies and teaching career in China and U.S.; Agassiz professorship of oriental languages and literature, University of California, Berkeley. Photocopies of documentary material supplementing the interview appended. Copies of photographs inserted. With this, 1 (portfolio) of additional doucmentary material, including reprints of articles.

Transcript : 1 v. ; 28 cm. + related material.

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