cqvip:Dr.Shau Yan Lee[李守仁]was a Baptist minister,teacher,and scholar.He worked in China and America for more than 40 years.His text books and audio materials on Chinese language studies were widely used in America and Canada during the 1940s,50s and 60s.He was the first few persons to use phonograph recording to record Chinese dialects and English-Chinese vocabulary.His two academic books How to win the Chinese(1944)and China has a ten thousand mile spiritual wall(1945)attracted a lot of attention in the 1940s.According to the WorldCat,his first book had three reprints between 1944 and 1946 and was held by twenty six libraries worldwide.His second book had four reprints in 1945 and was held by twenty four libraries worldwide.The latter was also gifted and received by President Franklin D.Roosevelt(See Proulx,2006).In this memoir we will give a brief account of Lee’s education background,work experience,academic publishing,and contributions to Chinese linguistics.We will also give a brief account of his families.This account is based on sourced materials and completed to remember his contribution to society.Any information without citation is provided by his two youngest daughters Ding Jung Lee(李定中)and To Jung Lee(李道中).
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