Screen LibraryChinese lexicography：a history from 1046 BC to AD 1911
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 458 p., [8] p. of plates: col. ill. ; 26 cm. |
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9780199539826 (hbk.) 0199539820 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | H16 |
| CLC: | H16-09 |
| Call Number: | H16-09/Y55 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-451) and index. Includes web resources. This title presents an account in English of the history of Chinese lexicography tracing its development from 1046 BC to AD 1911. It describes the origins and development of primers, thesauri, dictionaries of dialects, characters, and technical terms, rhyming dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and encyclopaedic dictionaries. |