Help needed: Raymond Huang's Mandarin Pronouncation: Explained with diagrams

[AlexBlackman]

Hi all.

Whilst rummaging through the Chinese section of the university library, I came across an excellent book to teach people Chinese pronouncation.

It has full descriptions of tongue movements and mouth positions, and though it's 42 years old and a tad academic, I can fully recommend it.

Now, as some of you might know, I'm writing a comprehensive and free beginners guide to Chinese and I think the diagrams from Huang's book would really be useful, would it be legal to directly copy them? I assume the author has passed on since it's a long time after 1969.

What should I do?

[roddy]

Ask on a forum where you can reasonably expect the members to have some knowledge of copyright law, and the psychic ability to discern which country you're in?

[AlexBlackman]

Ah! my bad.

I'm in Australia but I want to put the diagrams into my book on my internationally-availible .website

[Olle Linge]

Who's the author and what's the title of the book?

Edit: Okay, I followed a link to the post and only read the content, not the title. My bad, sorry.

[skylee]

I've found this on Amazon -> http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/0856560219

If it is the same book, I suppose you should write to the University Press of HKU to check the book's copyright, no?

PS - The author (Chinese name 黃勵文) passed away in 2001 (bilingual orbitury on page 27 here).

[AlexBlackman]

@Skylee, thanks, I've sent them an email

[roddy]

And his estate. . .

[maverickwoman]

And I am in Australia too and would LOVE to connect with you! maverickwoman at gmail dot com