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John DeFrancis is a Chinese language professor emeritus and researcher at the University of Hawaii who wrote a number of Chinese instructional texts (his Readers series is particularly well regarded) in the 1960s and 1970s. Although some of his spoken language texts are now considered to be outdated, he remains an important figure in Chinese language and linguistic research. His most famous work is The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, in which the common misconceptions of the language are debunked and several other topics disseminated.