A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect

by Joseph Edkins

Transcriber’s Notes.

• Footnotes have been numbered and placed at the end of the associated grammar article.
• Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text.
• Hyphenation variations are unchanged.
• The cover/title page image has been retouched to remove flaws.
• This book contains some rarely used forms of Chinese characters. Any eReader should contain as full a set of fonts as possible.
• The original book is available at the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Page [5]: The "Fifteen vowels" and "Thirty three consonants" were one table. They are split here for ease of layout.