Pinyin Riji Duanwen

Pinyin Riji Duanwen is a collection of short stories and essays in Mandarin Chinese by Zhang Liqing (1936–2010). Zhang was a Mandarin teacher in Taiwan and the United States and a scholar notable for her work on the ABC Chinese-English Dictionary and as co-founder of the journal Xin Tang. A notable promoter of Hanyu Pinyin — the standard romanization of Mandarin Chinese — she wrote these stories entirely in Pinyin. Well-written and engrossing, this collection will interest native speakers and learners of Mandarin alike.

Pīnyīn rìjì shōujíle yóu Zhāng Lìqīng (1936-2010) yòng Hànyǔ Pīnyīn xiě de gùshì hé duǎnwén. Zhāng Lìqīng zài Táiwān yǔ Měiguó dōu shì gè Zhōngwén lǎoshī, Zhāng lǎoshī shì gè zhùmíng xuézhě: tā zài «ABC Hàn–Yīng Cídiǎn» shàng yǒuzhe xǔduō gòngxiàn, yěshì «Xīn Táng» qīkān de chuànglì zhě. Zhāng lǎoshī gèng shì Hànyǔ Pīnyīn zhùmíng de cùjìn zhě; zhè běn shū lǐmiàn de gùshi dōu shì yòng Pīnyīn zhuǎn xiě de. Cǐ shū huì shǐrén rěnbùzhù quánshénguànzhù, duìyú Huárén yǔ xué Zhōngwén de rén, yīdìng huì fēicháng gǎn xìngqù.

“A wonderful collection of stories and anecdotes, providing a vivid sense of Zhang Liqing’s love of family and history.  Written in a lucid and expressive style, her voice truly comes alive on the page.”
—David Moser, author of A Billion Voices:China’s Search for a Common Language

“Zhāng Lìqīng wéi Zhōng–Měi wénhuà jiāoliú zuòchū de gòngxiàn, jiāng yǒngyuǎn shòudào Zhōng–Měi xuézǐmen de gǎnjī!”
—Zhou Youguang, the “father of Pinyin”