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Title:
A dictionary of the Hok-Këèn dialect of the Chinese language according to the reading and colloquial idioms:Containing about 12,000 characters, ...
Creator:
Medhurst, Walter Henry,1796-1857.
Date:
1832
Date in Source:
1832.
Place:
Macau.
Country:
China
Imprint:
Macao : [s.n.],
Language:
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Format:
lxiv, 860 pp.
Reference:
Lust, J. Western books on China, 1062
Also issued on microfiche.
Also issued on microfiche.
Note:
Sponsored by the East India Co., whose fount was used, and by subscription when its charter expired in 1834. The Advertisement was dated 1837, when the actual printing ended. According to Medhurst himself, he was never in China, his contacts were with dialect speaking emigrants. He appears to have got his illustrative material from the Kang-hsi dictionary, and apparently had no informant. The result is often a strange mixture.
Brill, 2010. (Western books on China up to 1850 ; HT-1064)
Brill, 2010. (Western books on China up to 1850 ; HT-1064)
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