Rui Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rui Li plays a role.
Articles
2022 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
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
2018 A remarkable compilation shift: A genealogical study of Medhurst’s Chinese and English Dictionary (1842–1843) Historiographia Linguistica 45:3, pp. 263–288 | Article
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