Ricerc@Sapienza

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presented is the analysis, study, translation into and from Chinese of a late Qing China lexicographical previously unpublished text; a Latin-Chinese dictionary.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.
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.