圖書目錄
Introduction: A Peripheral Approach to Chinese Linguistics as a Contribution to the Study of Cultural Interaction
Part I: Studies of Chinese in the Periphery
Chapter 1: The Value and Possibilities of Modern Western Studies of Chinese, with a Focus on Mandarin
Chapter 2: Modern Westerners’ Views of Chinese Style
Chapter 3: The Development of Modern Westerners’ Terms for Chinese Parts of Speech
Chapter 4: Morrison’s Grammar and Views on Translation
Chapter 5: The Grammar of Crawford’s Mandarin Grammar, a Milestone in Nineteenth-Century Studies of Chinese Grammar
Chapter 6: Chinese Studies of Grammar prior to Ma’s Guide to the Written Language: Bi Huazhen’s Division of Parts of Speech in Notes from Yanxu Cottage
Chapter 7: Thomas Wade’s Progressive Course
Chapter 8: Pidgin: A Feature of Contact between Cultures of Different Languages
Chapter 9: Wenyutang and Its Business Partners
Chapter 10: The Days of the Week in Modern Chinese
Chapter 11: The Chinese Bible Used by Robert Morrison: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the New Testament Translated by Jean Basset
Part II: Modern Cultural Interaction between East and West as Seen from Illustrations
Chapter 12: “Zixingche”: The Chinese Word for Bicycle
Chapter 13: An 1890 Amusement Park and Its Roller Coaster (“Zixingche”)
Chapter 14: The Life of Christ, Sinicized
Chapter 15: The Origins of Chinese Comic Strips
Chapter 16: Aesop’s Fables in The Child’s Paper, from New Sources
Chapter 17: Left versus Right in Chinese Illustrations of the Colossus of Rhodes
Chapter 18: The Words for Portrait and Chemistry in China
Chapter 19: Bulletproof Vests, No Less
Chapter 20: The First Iron Man?
Chapter 21: Manchu and Mongolian Pamphlets
Chapter 22: Clock Towers: Notes on Expressing the Time in Modern Chinese
Chapter 23: The Arrival of X-Ray Technology in China
Bibliography of Major Works
Origins of the Essays
List of Figures