In 1842, Fuzhou was open to Westerners as a treaty port after the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing.
But due to the language barrier, however, the first Christian missionary base in this city did not take place without difficulties.
In order to convert Fuzhou people, those missionaries found it very necessary to make a careful study of the Fuzhou dialect.
Their most notable works are listed below:
1856, M. C. White: The Chinese language spoken at Fuh Chau
1870, R. S. Maclay & C. C. Baldwin: An alphabetic dictionary of the Chinese language in the Foochow dialect
1871, C. C. Baldwin: Manual of the Foochow dialect
1891, T. B. Adam: An English-Chinese Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect
1893, Charles Hartwell: Three Character Classic of Gospel in the Foochow Colloquial
1898, R. S. Maclay & C. C. Baldwin: An Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language of the Foochow Dialect, 2nd edition
1905, T. B. Adam: An English-Chinese Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect, 2nd edition]
1906, The Foochow translation of the complete Bible
1923, T. B. Adam & L. P. Peet: An English-Chinese dictionary of the Foochow dialect, 2nd edition
1929, R. S. Maclay & C. C. Baldwin (revised and enlarged by S. H. Leger): Dictionary of the Foochow dialect
In 1842, Fuzhou was open to Westerners as a treaty port after the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing. But due to the language barrier, however, the first Christian missionary base in this city did not take place without difficulties. In order to convert Fuzhou people, those missionaries found it very necessary to make a careful study of the Fuzhou dialect. Their most notable works are listed below:
1856, M. C. White: The Chinese language spoken at Fuh Chau
1870, R. S. Maclay & C. C. Baldwin: An alphabetic dictionary of the Chinese language in the Foochow dialect
1871, C. C. Baldwin: Manual of the Foochow dialect
1891, T. B. Adam: An English-Chinese Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect
1893, Charles Hartwell: Three Character Classic of Gospel in the Foochow Colloquial
1898, R. S. Maclay & C. C. Baldwin: An Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language of the Foochow Dialect, 2nd edition
1905, T. B. Adam: An English-Chinese Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect, 2nd edition]
1906, The Foochow translation of the complete Bible
1923, T. B. Adam & L. P. Peet: An English-Chinese dictionary of the Foochow dialect, 2nd edition
1929, R. S. Maclay & C. C. Baldwin (revised and enlarged by S. H. Leger): Dictionary of the Foochow dialect
Fuzhou dialect