Rui Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rui Li plays a role.
Articles
The encounter of English and Chinese lexicographical traditions: A genealogical study of Wilhelm Lobscheid’s English and Chinese Dictionary (1866–1869) Historiographia Linguistica: Online-First Articles | Article
2024 The publication of Wilhelm Lobscheid’s (1822–1893) English and Chinese Dictionary, with the Punti and Mandarin Pronunciation (1866–1869) marked a turning point in the history of English-Chinese lexicography. This article traces the genealogy of Lobscheid’s English and Chinese Dictionary by… read more
From Mandarin to Cantonese Lexicography: A genealogical study of Robert Morrison’s Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect (1828) Historiographia Linguistica 49:2/3, pp. 235–266 | Article
2022 The Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect, compiled by Robert Morrison (1782–1834) and published in 1828 in Macao, was the first bilingual dictionary of Cantonese in a Western language. This article traces the genealogy of the Vocabulary by examining Morrison’s sources. It is shown how Morrison… read more
A remarkable compilation shift: A genealogical study of Medhurst’s Chinese and English Dictionary (1842–1843) Historiographia Linguistica 45:3, pp. 263–288 | Article
2018 During his work on his Chinese and English Dictionary (1842–1843) Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857) dramatically changed his compilation strategy by shifting from depending almost exclusively on Robert Morrison’s (1782–1834) Chinese-English dictionary, Zidian 字典 (1815–1823) to depending on… read more