A vocabulary of the Shanghai dialect = 上海方言词汇集

by Joseph Edkins

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Shanghai: Shang hai da xue chu ban she, 2016. Large 8vo, pp. 4 , 3, 1 , 2, 4 , 151, 1 ; covers a little spotted, else fine in blue laminate boards lettered in gilt. This is a facsimile of the original edition, an English-Chinese Shanghai dialect dictionary written by the British missionary Joseph Edkins in the late Qing Dynasty and published by Shanghai Meihua Library in 1869. The book is written in English, translated in Shanghainese, and has Phonetic

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