Yü yen tz? êrh chi. A progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese as spoken in the capital and the metropolitan department . In three volumes. Second edition

Wade, Thomas Francis, & Walter Cain Hillier

Edité par published at the Statistical Department of the Inspect General of Customs and sold by Kelly & Walsh. London, W.H. Allen, Shanghai, Yokohama, Hongkong, 1886

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3 volumes, large 4to, pp. xxviii, 349, [3]; [6], 523, [1]; [6], 245, [1]; roman and Mandarin characters throughout; volume 1 in original green cloth; volumes II and II in in half blue cloth over marbled boards; spines and boards stained; spine of vol. 1 worn with printed title largely perished, short splits to lower joints, vols. 2 and 3 stained, light foxing to endpaper, an inch of the fore-edge of half-title and title pages in vol. 2 excised and the table of contents reinserted, other pages chipped and repaired, a fair set overall. Vol. 1 with the library stamps on pastedown and title page of Pavel Vasilievich Shkurkin (1868 - 1943), Russian prince, soldier and notable orientalist. He served in the secret intelligence detachment of Russia's First Manchurian Army during the Russo-Japanese War, and was awarded Chinese Order of the Double Dragon for his service. After his retirement from the military he wrote on China and the Russian diaspora, and was member of the Russian branch of the Society of Oriental Studies. Vols. 2 and 3 with the extensive annotations of B. M. Nevill Perkins, Member of the HBM legation to Peking from 1891-1893 and the Consular Service to Formosa from 1893-1896 for which he served as interpreter. He traveled about Eastern China and Taiwan, and retired in 1901 or 2, all of which he recorded on the endpapers of vol. 2, in addition to providing his career history, he has made a multitude of comments on the grammar and interpretive sections of this book, which is largely confined to vol. 2. He provides full alternative translations for the lesson text in many instances, alternative definitions for both the Chinese and English, and comments about the instruction, often disparaging. First published in 1867 and here corrected and revised with the help of Walter Hillier. Wade (1818-1895) was a British diplomat and Sinologist who developed the famous Wade-Giles system of romanizing the Chinese language. His Peking Syllabary (1859) provided the basis of the Wade-Giles system, which was long the most popular form of romanization in the West as well as in China (even after the official introduction of Pinyin in 1958 and its adoption in 1979). "Sent to China in 1842, he began an earnest study of Chinese and eventually became an official interpreter, being one of the few officers who knew the Chinese language. After a visit to England in 1845, he became part of the diplomatic corps in China, serving in various posts over the years in Nanjing, Hong Kong, Beijing, and elsewhere and engaging in such important negotiations as those for the Treaty of Tianjin (1857), ending the second Opium War, and those for the Chefoo (Yantai) Convention (1876), opening new treaty ports" (Britannica). A mixed set, but with two interesting points of provenance from opposite ends of the Great Game.

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• Titre: Yü yen tz? êrh chi. A progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese as spoken in the capital and the metropolitan department . In three volumes. Second edition
• Éditeur: published at the Statistical Department of the Inspect General of Customs and sold by Kelly & Walsh. London, W.H. Allen, Shanghai, Yokohama, Hongkong
• Date de parution: 1886
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