Also Alvarez doesn't mention it, but I think most would find it interesting that it opens with a long introductory chapter on Singlish which referred to a form of Chinese writing that would be imposed on the conquered peoples of Australia and North America which was the subject of a scholarly group convened under authority of the Empire of Japan in 1942/3 and the documents of which DeFrancis found in Japan after the war. 72.228.150.44