Foreign words are messengers of different cultures

Author: Shi Youwei
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Publishing Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book focuses on introducing various foreign words that have appeared in the Chinese language since ancient times until the present, describing the diverse situations of foreign words from both diachronic and thematic perspectives. It provides a necessary organization of previous complex research findings on foreign words and offers creative discussions on new phenomena in word formation. The author adheres to the principle of catering to both scholars and general readers, writing in a way that is both academic and engaging, with a balance of readability and interest. At the end of the main text, there is a stroke index for words, which includes approximately three thousand entries, making it also suitable as a small-scale dictionary of foreign words, serving dual purposes. The original title of this book was "Messengers of Different Cultures—Foreign Words," first published in 1991. It was well-received by readers and quickly sold out. This revised and expanded edition is published by Shanghai Ci Shu Chubanshe, with a new title to distinguish it. The revised edition incorporates more recent research findings, increases the length by one-third, and corrects numerous omissions and printing errors.