Analytic dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese. [Études sur la phonologie chinoise] : dictionnaire / Bernhard Karlgren 高本漢 (1889-1978)

1st pt. orig. pub. in 1923.

Lib. copy is annotated in pencil and ballpoint.

Publisher and date of pub. taken from OCLC record.

English and Chinese dictionary, with the Punti and Mandarin pronunciation = Ying-Hua zidian 英華字典 / W. (William, Wilhelm) Lobscheid 羅存德, 1822-1893

Lib. copy in 3 parts in 4 vols. Part 3, vol. 2 is very frail, with severe worming and disintegrated binding. This vol. is heavily annotated. 

Box 1: vol. 1 (Part 1)

Box 2: vols. 2-3 (Part 2, Part 3, vol. 1)

Box 2: vol. 4 (Part 3, vol. 2)

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.

Interwoven processes in linguistic historiography : an integrated perspective on the history of Chinese language studies in Europe / Henning Klöter

Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 

Also available through Boston College Libraries

Summary:

This article presents an integrated perspective on the history of Chinese linguistics in Europe by examining the interplay of logistic, material, and institutional factors. Asking how knowledge related to the Chinese language was obtained, diffused, and preserved, it examines linguistic historiography through the prism of accessibility to China and its resulting corollaries for formulating and testing hypotheses about the Chinese language. The nineteenth century is seen as a time of professionalisation characterized by increased opportunities for engagement with China and its language, the creation of academic positions and teaching programs, technical advances in digraphic printing, and the return of competent speakers of the Chinese language.

Language diversity in the Sinophone world : historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices / Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela

Abstract:

Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies to new perspectives from sociolinguistics. The book begins by charting historical trajectories in Sinophone multilingualism, beginning with late imperial China through to the emergence of English in the mid-19th century. The volume uses this foundation as a jumping off point from which to provide an in-depth comparison of modern language planning and policies throughout the Sinophone world, with the final section examining multilingual practices not readily captured by planning frameworks and the ideologies, identities, repertoires, and competences intertwined within these different multilingual configurations. Taken together, the collection makes a unique sociolinguistic-focused intervention into emerging research in Sinophone studies and will be of interest to students and scholars within the discipline.

"The didactic features of James Summers’s (1828–1891) research on Chinese" / Chen Wei

Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 

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Abstract:

James Summers (1828–1891) is distinguished as the first professor of Chinese in Britain to conduct systematic research on the Chinese language. During his tenure as a Chinese professor, Summers’s research on the Chinese language demonstrated a pronounced didactic emphasis. This was evident in his departure from rigidly following linguistic theories, his adoption of diverse linguistic ideas and methodologies from scholars of varied backgrounds, and his inclusion of multiple varieties of Chinese as target languages, particularly Nanjing Mandarin. Summers’s early missionary work in China, along with his role at King’s College London, where he trained student interpreters for the British Foreign Office, greatly shaped his pedagogical focus. The didactic feature of his works aligns with the broader pragmatic approach of British sinology, reflecting the trend of recruiting retired missionaries and diplomats with experience in China into European university faculties after the mid-19th century.

"The history of Chinese linguistics in East and West" / Otto Zwartjes

Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 

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Introduction: 

This issue presents recent developments and new insights in research concerning relatively well-known sources from the history of Chinese (applied) linguistics and Chinese lexicography, such as Kangxi zidian, 康熙字典 [‘Kangxi Dictionary’] Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), James Summers (1828–1891) and Wilhelm Lobscheid (1822–1893). Of particular significance are contributions that introduce newly discovered sources or focus on materials that, — while referenced in existing surveys and catalogues —, have surprisingly received little scholarly attention to date

Xin Erya 新爾雅 / Wang Rongbao 汪榮寳, Ye Lan 葉瀾