Artwork : ArchiveNo00059

Chinese / English Dictionary 1904


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Artefact

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Contributor

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ContributionForm
Contributor Name Bonnie Kwok
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Profession

Location Friendship House, Southsea
Collection Date 04.12.07 3.05pm
Artefact Name Chinese / English Dictionary
Artefact Description Well used – some pages are falling out. Aging in colour – some pages have dark brown edges.
Fair condition.
18 x 14cm
Artefact Date 1904
Artefact Stored In sideboard drawer, Friendship House, Southsea
Artefact Form

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Sample Taken Small piece of paper from inside
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History of Artefact It belonged to her father. He gave it to her and said ‘don’t lose it!’ He went to Singapore to be educated. She is from South China, immigrated to Hong Kong, then to England in 1945.
Historian

Previous Owners Her father
Special Memories She uses this dictionary in England to learn Chinese to correspond home. It reminds her of her father and how he used it. It's still being used a hundred years on!
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Comments

-- Joyce Rimell - 05 Mar 2009

What an interesting story, how amazing that the dictionary has been used for a 100 years!!. The artwork created is fascinating, looks a bit like an eye!

-- Joyce Rimell - 05 Mar 2009

 

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