Ricerc@Sapienza

The work presented is the analysis, study, translation into and from Chinese of a late Qing China lexicographical previously unpublished work, a catechism published in Latin with the transcription of Chinese pronunciation. Starting from the transcription, the author provided the whole text in Chinese, annotated the text, translated the preface and pointed out its sources.
The text represents a unique instrument for all scholars interested in the topic of Nanjing guanhua, the history of foreign missions in China, linguistic missionary and the cultural interactions in the late Qing.

The work presented is the analysis, study, translation into and from Chinese of a late Qing China lexicographical previously unpublished text; a Latin-Chinese dictionary. The author has reconstructed the phonetical annotation, the Chinese characters as annotated by the original author and the Latin entries; the author has also annotated the texts, translating the prefaces and pointing out its sources.