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POSTPONED: “Vale poco” [of little value], a Forgotten Spanish-Chinese Dictionary in a Manila Archive
Regalado Trota José, Archives of the University of Santo Tomás in Manila
March 26, 2020 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 216 Aaron Burr
Program in East Asian Studies; Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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In April 2017 researchers from National Tsing Hua University (NTSU) of Taiwan in search of Chinese materials in the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás (AUST) in Manila “re-discovered” an obsolete Spanish-Chinese dictionary. It is among the earliest written sources not only for Hokkien, but also for Western-Chinese lexicography; it also “represents an early chapter outside the mainstream of historical lexicography.” Followed by a Q&A.