John DeFrancis
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican linguist (1911-2009)
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John DeFrancis was an American linguist and sinologist. He was an author of Chinese language textbooks, a lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and a professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Lived 1911 to 2009 · aged 97
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