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This theme includes bilingual dictionaries and glossaries between Chinese and foreign languages, academic articles on the linguistics of Chinese dialects, guides to Chinese linguistic etiquette and idioms, guides for foreign learners of Chinese and tracts on expounding Christian doctrines in Chinese.

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication
An account of an evangelical Chinese manuscript in the British Museum, together with a specimen of it, and some hints on the proper mode of publishing it in London	Montucci, Antonio, 1762-1829	[1801]	[London]
Advertisement for a book entitled "Huren Baojian Laihan"
Ancient symbolism among the Chinese	Edkins, Joseph, 1823-1905	1889	London, Shanghai
Anglo-Chinese phrase-book and vocabulary: Yunnanese dialect	Bentley, C.W.	1901	Rangoon
Aperçu des Études Philologiques des Langues Malaises, Pendant Les Années 1886-1891	Meÿer, J.J.	1893	Woking
The awakening of faith in the Mahayana doctrine: the new Buddhism, by the patriarch Ashvagosha; translated into Chinese by Paramartha; translated into English in 1894 by Timothy Richard	Ashvagosha	1907	Shanghai
The Child's Paper. Moral, religious, scientific, instructive and amusing		January 1881	Shanghai
Chinese accounts of our mounds	M'Allan, Alexander	1912	Brooklyn
Chinese and Annamese	Parker, Edward Harper, 1849-1926	[1889]	[Yokohama]
Chinese and Indo-European roots and analogues	Chase, Pliny Earle	1861
Chinese Christian Advocate, Jan. 24, 1917		24 January 1917
Chinese Illustrated News		April 1916	Shanghai
Chinese Illustrated News		August 1915
The Chinese numerals	Moseley, Crowder Bell	1901	Shanghai
The Chinese radicals	China Inland Mission	1896	Shanghai
Chinese without a teacher, being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect with a vocabulary, sixth edition	Giles, Herbert A.	1907	Shanghai
Chinese writing in the Chou dynasty in the light of recent discoveries	Hopkins, Lionel Charles, 1854-1952	[1911]	[London]
Correction of the press		1880
Das Evangelium des Lucas im Volksdialekte der Hakka Chinesen	Die Missionare der Baseler Missions Gesellschaft	1865	Hong Kong
A dictionary of philosophical terms chiefly from the Japanese	Richard, Dr; MacGillivray, Dr	1913	Shanghai
Dictionary of world's language (with explanation)
Die sprachgeschichtliche Stellung des Chinesischen	Grube, Wilhelm, Dr	1881	Leipzig
The divine name in ancient China	Inglis, J.W., Rev	1910	Shanghai
Elementary lessons in Chinese	Foster, Arnold	1887	London
Essay on Chinese scientific terminology: its present discrepancies, and means of securing uniformity	Fryer, John, 1839-1928	1890	Shanghai
Essay on Chinese scientific terminology: its present discrepancies, and means of securing uniformity	Fryer, John, 1839-1928	1890	Shanghai
The faith of a Christian, by Rev. Bernard Lucas, translated by Mrs S. Couling and Li Yung K'ing	Lucas, Bernard, Rev; Couling, Mrs S.; Li, Yung K'ing	1911	Shanghai
Family talks in the Shanghai dialect	Graves, F.R.; Cooper, F.C.	[1914]
First lessons in Chinese	Lyon, Edna Messler; Liang, Ernest Norman	1913
The fortunate union: chapter I, translated by Robert K. Douglas	Hao ch'iu chuan	1900	London
A glossary of English and Chinese anatomical terms according to the old and new medical nomenclatures	Whitney, H.T.	1906	Foochow
The gospel according to Saint Matthew		1909	Shanghai
The gospel primer	Mateer, A.H.	1914	Shanghai
Graduated reading, comprising a circle of knowledge		1873	Hong Kong
Grammatical definitions in English and Chinese	Warren, Gilbert George, 1861-1927	1913	Shanghai
Grammatical studies in the colloquial language of northern China	McIlvaine, J.S.	1880	Shanghai
Hand-book on etiquette in Chinese official intercourse	Li Mou-Hsun	[1905]
Happy childhood			Shanghai
Hints on Chinese idiom	Sadler, J., Rev	[1904]	Shanghai
How to write the radicals	Ball, J. Dyer	1905	Hong Kong
Index of words and phrases in Chinese and in English	Poletti, P.	[1905?]
An inquiry into the proper mode of translating ruach and pneuma, in the Chinese version of the Scriptures	Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796-1857	1850	Shanghai
Introduction to the translation of the Han Annals	Howorth, H.H.
Jian shi ji yao tu shuo [Chinese historical atlas]	Wilder, G.D.	1907	Yokohama
Lecture on the nature and structure of the Chinese language, delivered at University College	Kidd, Samuel, 1804-1843	1838	London
Letter from the Bishop of Victoria on the Chinese version of the Holy Scriptures	Bishop of Victoria	20 August 1851	Hong Kong
Letters on the rendering of the name God in the Chinese language	Legge, James, 1815-1897	1850	Hong Kong
List of books issued by the publication committee of the China Medical Missionary Association	The Mission Book Company
List of books issued by the publication committee of the China Medical Missionary Association and sold by the Mission Book Company			Shanghai
Localities in Shanghai	Crofoot, J.W.	[1911]	Shanghai
The Lord's prayer, in Chinese, with literal translation, and the pronunciation of each character			London
Materials for a flora of the Kwan Tung Peninsula	Palibin, J.	1903
Me-Nyih-Ts Liang	Lung-Doong
Memorandum upon an alphabetical system for writing Chinese	Hillier, Walter, Sir		London
Monthly Herald		August 1915
The Nestorian monument: an ancient record of Christianity in China, with special reference to the expedition of Frits v. Holm	Carus, Paul, Dr	1909	Chicago
Of the origin and progress of language, by Lord Montboddo		1792
The old Babylonian characters and their Chinese derivates	Terrien de Lacouperie, d. 1894	[1888]	[London]
The old Babylonian characters and their Chinese derivates	Terrien de Lacouperie, d. 1894	[1888]	[London]
On an ancient inscription in the Neu-chih language	Wylie, Alexander, 1815-1887	[1860]	[London]
On the causes of antiphrasis in language	Schlegel, G.	[1891]
On the Chinese version of the Scriptures	Medhurst, W.H.; Stronach, John; Milne, William C.	1 August 1851	Shanghai
On the Corean, Aïno and Fusang writings	Terrien de Lacouperie	1892	Leiden
One thousand useful Chinese characters, reprinted from "The Chinese language"	Hillier, Walter Caine, Sir, 1849-1927	1907	London
The onomastic similarity of Nai Hwang-ti of China and Nakhunte of Susiana	Terrien de Lacouperie, A., Dr, d. 1894	1890	London
Part of a Chinese tract containing Christ's sermon on the mount			Boston
The Phonotypic Journal		October 1843	Bath
Pidgin English rhymes	Hayter, H.W.G.	1909	Shanghai
Pidgin-English sing-song or songs and stories in the China-English dialect	Leland, Charles G.	1892	London
Principles of composition in Chinese: as deduced from the written characters	Legge, James, 1815-1897	[1879]	[London]
Progressive lessons in the Chinese spoken language: with lists of common words and phrases, and an appendix containing the laws of tones in the Peking dialect	Edkins, Joseph, 1823-1905	1864	Shanghai
Radical rhymes		[1910]
Remarks on the best term for god in Chinese	Peet, L.B., Rev	1852	Canton
Reply to the strictures on the remarks made on the translation of Genesis and Exodus in the revision of the Chinese Scriptures	Culbertson, M.S.	1852	Canton
A Rong-English glossary	Grünwedel, Albert
The secret of the Chinese method of transcribing foreign sounds	Schlegel, G, Dr	1900	Leyden
A sermon, preached in the meeting house of the Baptist Society in Salem	Jones, William	1812	Boston
Strictures on the remarks contained in "papers relating to the Shanghae revision of the Chinese Scriptures"	Medhurst, W.H.; Stronach, John; Milne, Wm. C.	16 June 1852	Shanghai
The surnames of the Chinese in America spelled according to the David Jones system of spelling Chinese names: with notes on various subjects of interest to the Chinese and those who do business with them	Jones, David D.	1904	San Francisco
Table of the Chinese radicals or keys exhibiting their pronunciation, figure, and meaning			Washington D.C.
Teaching from pictures for young and old	Byrne, Janet	1886	New York
Terms for Bible wines in Chinese	Hartwell, Charles	1888	[Shanghai]
The Theological Quarterly of the Nanking School of Theology	Nanking School of Theology
Tushu Huibao		December 1913	Shanghai
Vindiciae alphabeticae
A vocabulary of proper names, in Chinese and English, of places, persons, tribes, and sects, in China, Japan, Corea, Annam, Siam, Burmah, the Straits and adjacent countries	Smith, F. Porter	1870	Shanghai
The word for god in Chinese	Stanley, C.A., Rev	1909	Shanghai
The Young People's Friend		August 1916

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