Grammaire française élémentaire à l'usage des élèves chinois = Fawen chufan 法文初範 / Tsang, Laurent [Zhang Junsheng 張俊聲]

It appears that Tsang's style name was Yunqin 韻琴.

Author's prefaces dated 1898 (French), 1909 (French), and 1909 (Chinese). Additional prefaces by Gao Mengqi 高孟啟 (1909) and Zhang Yifeng 張一鳳 (1909)

See further Yan Xu, "Histoire des méthodologies de l'enseignement du français en Chine (1850-2010)" (PhD thesis, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis and Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2014), p. 121ff.

"Linguistic contributions of Protestant missionaries in south China : an overview of Cantonese religious and pedagogical publications (1828–1939)" / Kataoka Shin and Lee Yin Ping.

Religions 15 (2024).

This article belongs to the Special Issue Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts: In Memory of Our Mentor Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019).

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Abstract:

Robert Morrison 馬禮遜, the first Protestant missionary to China, came to Guangdong as an employee of the East India Company and with the support of the London Missionary Society in 1807. Amongst his path-breaking translation work, he published the first Chinese Bible (Shen Tian Shengshu 神天聖書) in 1823. As many foreigners in Guangdong could not speak Cantonese, Morrison compiled a three-volume Cantonese learning aid, A Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect (1828), using specifically Cantonese Chinese characters and his Cantonese romanization system. In consequence, missionaries translated Christian literature and the Bible into Cantonese, for they realized that proficiency in Cantonese was essential for proselytization among ordinary people. Over the past twenty years, we have collected and identified around 260 Cantonese works written and translated by Western Protestant missionaries, and these Cantonese writings can be categorized as follows: 1. dictionaries; 2. textbooks; 3. Christian literature; 4. Bibles; and 5. miscellanea. In the study of the Western Protestant missions, their linguistic contribution is relatively under-represented. Through analyzing the phonological, lexical, and grammatical features of early Cantonese expressions in these selected missionary works, we strive to highlight the missionaries’ contributions to the diachronic study of the Cantonese language in modern southern China.

Matteo Ricci and the Missionary Role in the Evolution of Chinese Lexicon / Zhao Ming 趙明

"This is a systematic study of Matteo Ricci's (1552-1610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China. Taking the Sino-Western cultural exchanges initiated by Western Jesuit missionaries in the late-Míng dynasty as its starting point, this book comprehensively presents the new terms coined by Ricci (and his collaborators) in his religious, geographical, geometrical, and astronomical Chinese writings. It uses a multitude of examples adopted from Ricci's Chinese works as well as from ancient Chinese documents to discuss etymological evolution. Ricci's early coinages of terms and their subsequent history demonstrate the role of interaction and scholarly collaboration between the late Míng Jesuits and Chinese intellectuals in the formation of modern Chinese lexicon. The research conclusions of this book will further advance Míng-dynasty studies and contribute to a new understanding of the creation of modern Chinese lexicon. A vital resource for students, scholars and linguists studying and researching in the history of Chinese and early Mandarin. This volume will also be very interesting among students and scholars of Chinese literature and history, particularly among scholars who work in Míng history and literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- The historical background to Ricci's missionary role in the evolution of the Chinese lexicon -- Religious terms coined by Matteo Ricci -- Geographical names and terminology coined by Matteo Ricci -- Geometrical terms coined by Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 -- Astronomical terms coined by Matteo Ricci and Li Zhizao 李之藻 -- Terms coined by Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri -- Ricci's missionary role in the evolution of the Chinese lexicon -- Appendix 1: The evolution of word forms in Ricci's coinages -- Appendix 2: Ricci's timeline in China.

Available in open access from the publisher's website.

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