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Mr. C.C. Chao and Mrs. Betty Yang voice the texts and exercises of Lessons 1-20. The text they used was probably the revised edition and eighth printing of Pao-ch’en Lee's Read About China (New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1972). This text may be found in Regenstein Library.

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These tapes were recorded off-campus by Chao and Yang. Donated to the LLA by Prof. Chao in 2003. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

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Chao, George Chih-ch’ao; and Betty Yang

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Read about China: Supplementary materials

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Native speaker voices Lessons 1-20 with pauses for repetition.

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The “original” of Lessons 1-13 was originally recorded on a seven-inch reel by Mrs. Borchert; subsequently, the remaining seven lessons had to be recorded in the Studio.

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Borchert, Chen-yang

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A primer of newspaper Chinese, revised edition (1967)

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Native speaker (female) does a fluent reading of the the 22 selections (with the vocabulary) from the 1967 (revised) edition of the text (New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1967). The recording was made at Seton-Hall University in August 1967 ("for Yale University"). Regenstein Library holds a copy of the text.

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Tapes are the copies evidently sent to C.C. Chao from Seton Hall c. 1967. (Gift of C.C. Chao to the LLA in October 2002)

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Beginning Chinese reader (John DeFrancis)

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Pronunciation; Lessons 14-24

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Donated to the LLA by Prof. C.C. Chao in 2003

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Beginning Chinese reader (John DeFrancis) [Set No. 2, incomplete]

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Donation of C.C. Chao to the LLA in 2003

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Unknown

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Chinese character self-tutor

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Both a native male speaker and a native female speaker voice each character in the character set featured in the interactive computer course, “Chinese Character Self-tutor”.

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Chao, C.C., and a female consultant