John Defrancis

John Defrancis is a Chinese language professor emeritus and researcher at the University of Hawaii who wrote a number of Chinese instructional texts (his Readers series is particularly well regarded...

John Defrancis is up in years and is working on an English-Chinese dictionary, which is admittedly more important...

Defrancis is the author of dozens of articles and books on spoken and written Chinese, among them a...

Defrancis was Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society from 1950 to 1955...

John Defrancis is a big believer in the importance of proper Pinyin orthography, so entries in the ABC dictionary should be about as close to an accurate...