Dialogues in English and colloquial Cantonese

The dialogues, written in English and the Cantonese vernacular, were composed by a Chinese teacher in 1841 and reproduced in this volume in July 1850 by the lithographic process, in the hope that their extended use "might facilitate to some extent the acquisition of the provincial dialect". In his '...

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Order number: CWML MSS 6
Date(s) of creation: 1850
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

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