4.0759 Rs: Chinese Wordprocessing (2/46)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 27 Nov 90 13:35:21 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0759. Tuesday, 27 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 08:22:14 EST (18 lines)
From: Tom Nimick <0632281@PUCC>
Subject: Taboos on Chinese imperial names
(2) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 11:27:15 EST (28 lines)
From: Jan Eveleth <EVELETH@YALEVM>
Subject: Chinese WP on Mac
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 08:22:14 EST
From: Tom Nimick <0632281@PUCC>
Subject: Taboos on Chinese imperial names
Renear": 4.0756 Death and Loss of Name (4/55)
The characters in any Chinese emperor's name were taboo both during his
lifetime and for as long as his house reigned. This was most strictly
observed in the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), but can be observed much
earlier than that. This gave rise to the custom of using infrequently
used characters in imperial names so as to limit the problems it would
cause. Some authors in imperial China also observed taboos on the
characters in their father's name.
Tom Nimick
Chinese History
Princeton University
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 11:27:15 EST
From: Jan Eveleth <EVELETH@YALEVM>
Subject: Chinese WP on Mac
"FEIMA from Wu Corporation: Professional version has over 7500
characters, in both simplified and traditional characters, with tone
marks, with the ability to create one's own glossary. The input system
is the same in both versions: phonetically (Mandarin pronunciation) via
pinyin or bopomofo (zhuyin fuhao), or visually via zi gen or tsang jie
radical system or the 4-stroke system. In addition to standard ASCII
English, FEIMA also has Japanese kana for tri-lingual
applications....Hardware requirements for the Macintosh, it requires
either a Plus or SE with external disk drive or hard disk."
Price: $595
This information comes from a catalog: Cheng & Tsui Co.
25-31 West St.
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 426-6074
Student versions, in single or site-license packages, also available.
Or contact the Wu Corporation directly: P.O. Box 699, Avon, CT 06001
(203) 677-1528. The chairman of our East Asian dept. was impressed with
the program; we didn't buy it because the price was too steep for our
wallets.
--Jan Eveleth
Humanities Consultant
Yale University