An English and Chinese pocket dictionary, in the Mandarin dialect . Fourth edition
Published by American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, 1909
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5½" x 4½", pp. [2], viii, 184; English entries with Chinese equivalents; original quarter black goat, gilt-stamped on upper cover, gilt fillets on spine; corners bumped, some rubbing along the bottom of the upper cover, but on the whole a very good, sound, and clean copy. First published in 1893. The book was popular and went through five editions by 1916. "This edition has been carefully revised and corrected, the number of words have been increased to about 4,000 and Giles' Romanization has been substituted for Williams'.", not including modern scholarly editions. Amy Foster (née Jackson) "was born on 26 May 1856. She was appointed as a missionary with the London Missionary Society to Hong Kong, and sailed in 1878. She was married to Rev Arnold Foster, also an LMS missionary (Wuchang, China), on 22 June 1882 at Union Church, Hong Kong. Rev Foster was appointed Honorary Missionary to Hankow in 1884. In 1889, they removed to Wuchang and took charge of that station. In February 1900, Mrs Foster opened a Girls' Boarding School. In 1910, Rev Foster was chosen as first member of the Advisory Council for Central China. In 1911, Mrs Foster became a member of the District Committee, continuing to live in Wuchang and taking part in that work until 1918. From 1915 to 1918, Rev Foster was Hon. Pastor of the Hankow Union Church. In 1918, they moved to Kuling, where Rev Foster died on 30 July 1919. Amy Foster died in 1938" (archiveshub). Of this edition Hofstra, Concordia Theological, Dallas Theological, Virginia Tech, and 2 in Germany in OCLC. …
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- Title
- An English and Chinese pocket dictionary, in the Mandarin dialect . Fourth edition
- Author
- Foster, Mrs. Arnold [Amy Foster]
- Publisher
- American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai
- Publication year
- 1909
- Seller catalogs
- Asia, Dictionaries, Language
Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
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