Excerpted And Recorded Manchu Phrases Containing Ch Ya Shu Ming Mu Ma Jurgan Yamun I Gebu Titles Of

by Qing Yu Zhai Chao

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Four vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching, orig. title slips on wrappers some a little torn . Beijing: San huai tang 三槐堂, 1889-90. First or early edition of this collection of Manchu-Chinese vocabularies with official terms. Manchu was one of the official languages of the Qing empire, and down to the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, certain kinds of government records were kept either in Manchu or in bilingual Manchu-Chinese form. The

• Binding: Wrappers

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