Author: Thomas Francis WadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Yu Yen Tzu Erh Chi: a Progressive Course of Colloquial Chinese as Spoken in the Captical and the Metropolitan Department. 2d Ed
Author: Thomas Francis WadeBibliotheca Orientalis
Author: Luzac &coCh'ing Documents
Author: John K. FairbankPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Volume 1 of a syllabus and reference work for understanding Ch'ing documents, written by John K. Fairbank and used for one of his history courses at Harvard University. Also includes an introduction, notes, and an appendix.
A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong
Author: Benjamin PennyPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760465925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster’s diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Chinese Rime Tables
Author: David Prager BrannerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902728847X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy. After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas: application of rime table theory to reconstruction, the history of rime table theory, and the application of the tables to descriptive linguistics. An appendix details a number of 20th century systems for transcribing their phonology into Roman letters. Major topics include Altaic contact-influence on Chinese, early native understanding of the tables’ meaning, the phonological work of Yuen Ren Chao, and Stammbaumtheorie/diasystemic thinking about Chinese. New reconstructions of Han and “Common Dialectal” phonology appear here, as do complete texts and translations of the Shouwen fragments and Yunjing preface.
Yü Yen Tzu Erh Chi, a Progressive Course Designed to Assist the Student of Colloquial Chinese as Spoken in the Capital and the Metropolitan Department
Author: Thomas Francis WadePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337757113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Ch'ing Documents: Chinese texts
Author: John King FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Ch'ing Documents
Author: John King FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description