title: Hand-written Russian-Chinese Dictionary from Collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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metadata.value: Tsvetkov, Dmitrii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T21:24:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T21:24:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Tsvetkov D. V. Hand-written Russian-Chinese Dictionary from Collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 480–489.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23897
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metadata.value: This article is dedicated to the analysis of a hand-written Russian-Chinese dictionary kept in
  the Manuscript Research Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The
  author identifies the principles of compilation that were used in the dictionary, and discovers
  the purpose of its compilation. The manuscript was gathered by Illarion K. Rossokhin, one of
  the first Russian teachers and translators of Chinese and Manchu. While in China, Rossokhin
  not only studied Chinese and Manchu languages, but also taught Russian language at a special
  school for Chinese officials. In this article, the author attempts to establish when the dictionary
  was written. As a result of the study, it was suggested that the compilation of the dictionary
  could have been started in China and finished in Russia. It was found that the manuscript does
  not have a unified structure. There are many repetitions and it is possible to note a tendency
  to group words according to thematic characteristics. The manuscript can be separated into
  three parts: the first part where there is some effort to group words in an unified structure; in
  the second part we can see a normal grouping in a unified order without titles; in the third part
  thematic paragraphs have titles. Creating a dictionary that was convenient for use by people
  who studied the Chinese language is one the possible reasons for utilizing a thematic structure.
  It is clear that dictionary was influenced by Chinese “category dictionaries” (leishu). The
  author’s analysis of the dictionary shows that it was used to teach conversational Chinese and
  it could also have been a source of information on the basics of Chinese grammar.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lexicography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of Russian sinology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archival materials
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dictionaries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Hand-written Russian-Chinese Dictionary from Collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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metadata.value: Article
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