The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Some General Remarks about Chinese Characters
2 How You Slice It
3 The Basic Stuff
4 Looking Up Characters
5 Let's Decipher Some Menus
6 Now You Do the Deciphering
7 Dimsam Menus
8 Restaurant Names
9 Familiar Characters in Unfamiliar Forms
10 Writing Out Your Own Order
11 The Pronunciation of Chinese
Mandarin
Cantonese
12 Answers to Excercises
13 Directions for Finding Characters in the Glossary
Index of Left Halves
Index of Tops
Index of Enclosures
Index of Indivisible Characters
Glossary
Index of English Names