Bill McCann
Associate Editor, China
Contributions to
IDEA:
Text Files
Anhui 2 | Anhui 3 | Guangdong 1 | Guangdong 2 | Gansu 1 | Gansu 2 | Guizhou 1 | Hebei 1 | Hebei 2 | Hebei 3 | Heilongjiang 1 | Heilongjiang 2 | Henan 1 | Henan 2 | Hubei 2 | Hunan 1 | Hunan 2 | Jiangsu 3 | Jiangsu 4 | Jiangsu 5 | Jiangsu 6 | Jiangsu 7 | Jiangsu 8 | Jiangsu 9 | Jiangsu 10 | Jiangsu 11 | Jiangsu 12 | Jiangsu 13 | Jiangsu 14 | Jiangsu 15 | Jiangsu 16 | Jiangsu 17 | Jiangsu 18 | Jiangsu 19 | Jiangsu 20 | Jiangsu 21 | Jiangsu 22 | Jiangsu 23 | Jiangsu 24 | Jiangsu 25 | Jiangsu 26 | Liaoning 1 | Liaoning 2 | Shandong 1 | Sichuan 1 | Sichuan 2 | Sichuan 3 | Xinjiang 1 | Zhejiang 1 | Zhejiang 2 |
Audio Files
Anhui 2 | Anhui 3 | Guangdong 1 | Guangdong 2 | Gansu 1 | Gansu 2 | Guizhou 1 | Hebei 1 | Hebei 2 | Hebei 3 | Heilongjiang 1 | Heilongjiang 2 | Henan 1 | Henan 2 | Hubei 2 | Hunan 1 | Hunan 2 | Jiangsu 3 | Jiangsu 4 | Jiangsu 5 | Jiangsu 6 | Jiangsu 7 | Jiangsu 8 | Jiangsu 9 | Jiangsu 10 | Jiangsu 11 | Jiangsu 12 | Jiangsu 13 | Jiangsu 14 | Jiangsu 15 | Jiangsu 16 | Jiangsu 17 | Jiangsu 18 | Jiangsu 19 | Jiangsu 20 | Jiangsu 21 | Jiangsu 22 | Jiangsu 23 | Jiangsu 24 | Jiangsu 25 | Jiangsu 26 | Liaoning 1 | Liaoning 2 | Shandong 1 | Sichuan 1 | Sichuan 2 | Sichuan 3 | Xinjiang 1 | Zhejiang 1 | Zhejiang 2 |
Bio:
Bill McCann teaches English as a Foreign Language at Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China. Following his Ph.D.in Physical Chemistry at Galway, Ireland, he lectured and carried out research at Imperial College, London. He then moved into archaeology and established a geophysical laboratory and archaeomagnetic dating facility at the Museum of London. He set up similar facilities at a university in Romania during his extensive archaeological research work across Europe. Arthritis forced an early retirement from active research, and he turned to writing history and collaborating in writing movie plots for a London-based company. His website explores the "odd and unusual" history of London.
He has always been interested in language, and moved to China as a TEFL teacher in January 2006. He has now settled in Suzhou, and has developed a keen interest in Chinese Dialects, particularly those of Wu group, of which Suzhouhua is the premier dialect.