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<description><![CDATA[For those who haven't heard it, in November of this year Brill will publish "A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese."  If for no other reason than that this will be the first such tome of its kind, this is a major publishing event.  Moreover, the people involved in it -- Paul Kroll as principal author, with contributions from William Boltz, David Knechtges and other prominent sinologists -- make it likely that this will be a very high quality reference book.<br /><br />Also, suprisingly for Brill, the price tag (on the softcover) will be affordable and fair: US$49.  The hardback price of $250 is more what one expects from Brill, and will likely only be purchased by libraries.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/students-dictionary-classical-and-medieval-chinese-0" rel="nofollow">www.brill.com/products/referen...</a><br /><br />A few sample entries are supplied on the promotional site for the (eventual) online version of the dictionary:<br /><br /><a href="http://chinesereferenceshelf.brillonline.com/chinese-english/" rel="nofollow">chinesereferenceshelf.brillonl...</a><br /><br />Based upon those sample entries, it appears that the definitions will follow a chronological order （本义，引申义，后起义） with specialized usages, such as Buddhist uses, at the end.  Middle Chinese reconstructions will be provided.  Compared to Chinese language dictionaries, it appears that references to loci classici will be relatively sparce and will not include the source (i.e. some excerpts from texts are provided but without reference to which text).  Perhaps the sample entries are not full or represenetative of what will actually be in the dictionary, but this feature (or lack of feature) is an unfortunate and regretable aspect of the dictionary, and will make the consultation of existing Chinese dictionaries (e.g. 王力古汉语字典，辞源) or the use of websites such as ctext a necessary accompaniment to the use of this dictionary.  Nevertheless, the sheer availability of clear, plain English definitions of classical Chinese terms is a major, unprecedented and laudable event.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:45:17 GMT</pubDate>
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