GARDNER, J. Endicott.

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The Peerless 100-Year Chinese-English Calendar, 1849-1948. First edition, first printing, of this guide published in a period of increasing commercial, educational, and cultural exchange between China and the US. The painstakingly compiled tables help merchants, students, and professionals convert between Western dates and the traditional Chinese sexagenary cycle, as well as locate years within particular imperial reigns.The author was a professor of Chinese language at the University of California and an immigration inspector in San Francisco. He first compiled 50- and 77-year guides for the use of the US immigration and diplomatic services, and the demand for these demonstrated the viability of a commercial publication. "The work now sent out from the press is a vast improvement upon its predecessors, especially in that it is printed in the two languages, distinguished by as many colours" (preface).

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