Chinese-English Dictionary (A Chinese-English Dictionary Compiled for the China Inland Mission)
Robert Henry Mathews
Published in 1931 and revised in 1943, this small, but comprehensive dictionary contains 7,773 Chinese characters and 104,000 compounds taken from the classics, general literature, magazines, and newspapers. Necessary corrections in regard to pronunciation have been made; the tones of the characters have been checked; and a large number of terms have been added in order to facilitate the reading of periodicals and newspapers--whether political, economic, chemical, or military.
Hardcover 1943
Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese
Yuen Ren Chao
Lien-sheng Yang
Hardcover 1947
A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese
Paul Rouzer
Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give students a grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate the changes in written Chinese over the centuries.
Paperback 2007 / Hardcover 2007