Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese

Acknowledgments v

Acknowledgments

We thank all of the people who have been involved in the development of this course. We
give a special thanks to the students in the elementary Chinese class of 2008–2009 at the
College of the Holy Cross for their patience and feedback as we field tested and revised each
lesson. Thanks also to Soon Suet-ching and Ko Joon Kang, foreign language assistants in
Chinese at Holy Cross in the same year, for their help on many aspects of the project. We
are grateful to the College of the Holy Cross for its generous support in the way of released
time and resources, and to the members of the Audio-Visual Department at the College for
their help in producing audio recordings that enabled field testing. We thank our editors
for their guidance and for their help in keeping us on track. Last but not least, we thank our
families for their ongoing support and their confidence in our work.

The stroke order charts in this book were produced with eStroke software and are included
with the permission of EON Media Limited:

http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke.