華英通語集全 Huaying tongyu jiquan (A Collection of Common Phrases in Chinese and English)
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Title
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華英通語集全 Huaying tongyu jiquan (A Collection of Common Phrases in Chinese and English)
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Subject
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Chinese language
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Australia--History
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Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
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Business enterprises
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International trade
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Category
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1. Settlement
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Author
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Wenyu tang 文裕堂
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Place of Publication
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Hong Kong
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Keywords
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translation
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Social conditions
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Trade
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Gold prospecting
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Current holder
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Ashfield & District Historical Society
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Date
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1884
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Rights
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No longer in copyright
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Country of origin
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China
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Physical format
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Books
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Abstract
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Ashfield & District Historical Society (NSW) holds a book of which the title page, below, is Huaying tongyu jiquan 華英通語集全 (A Collection of Common Phrases in Chinese and English), printed in the Jiashen year of the Guangxu reign (1884) in Hong Kong, by Wenyu tang 文裕堂. It is indicated that it is a “revised edition” (重訂). Neither an original of that title or this revised edition have at present been identified in any library.
It is fortunate that there is some knowledge of the copy’s provenance, since the (back?) cover is inscribed “Alf Hughes/From his employer/Quong Tart/City.” Quong Tart (or Moy Quong Tart) was the Anglicised name of a prominent Ashfield citizen (pinyin Mei Guangda 梅光達). At present nothing more is known of Hughes, or why Mei would present him with this phrasebook.
Dimensions H205mm x W130mm
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Related resources
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https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/557/
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https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3202/
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https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/4334/
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https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3603/
Tart, Quong
