Download or read book A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Edkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect The mandarin student will meet with scarcely any new idioms here. Of words, there are a few tens not used in the fashionable colloquial. It is in sounds that the greatest vari ation exists, and an attempt has therefore been made to form a correct nomenclature for tones, and for the alphabetic ele ments of spoken words. For the latter, Sir W. Jones' system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.