{"id":3380,"date":"2010-05-19T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T06:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2010-05-20T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:48:58","slug":"le-grand-ricci-now-available-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/le-grand-ricci-now-available-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Grand Ricci now available on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2010\/05\/grand_ricci.jpg\" alt=\"cover of le Grand Ricci numerique\" title=\"grand_ricci\" style=\"width: 265px; height: 369px; float: right; border-left: .5em solid white;\"  \/>The magnificent <em>Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise<\/em>, better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandricci.org\/\"><em>le Grand Ricci<\/em><\/a>, has just been released on DVD, almost a decade after its release in book form and exactly four hundred years after the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matteo_Ricci\">Matteo Ricci<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The list price is 120 euros (about US$150), which is much cheaper than the printed edition. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/xd8lzp_le-grand-ricci-numerique_news\">long video in French<\/a> (16:31) discusses the work. For those who would prefer something in English, a PDF gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandricci.org\/resumengl.pdf\">background information on the dictionary project<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For a sample of the dictionary&#8217;s format and entries, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandricci.org\/shan.pdf\">25 pages of entries for <em>shan<\/em><\/a>. Alas, as this example shows, the entries are not word parsed. But at least Hanyu Pinyin is now available for those who prefer it to Wade-Giles. <\/p>\n<p>As long as I&#8217;m mentioning Ricci-related work, I might as well use the occasion to note that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riccibase.com\/\">Taipei Ricci Institute<\/a> is putting its collection of books on permanent loan to Taiwan&#8217;s National Central Library. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;d like to note that parts of Matteo Ricci&#8217;s original dictionary can now be viewed through the Google Books scan of a publication from earlier this century of his <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=A7h5YbM5M60C&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;source=gbs_v2_summary_r&#038;cad=0#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Dicion\u00e1rio Portugu\u00eas-Chin\u00eas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2010\/05\/ricci_first_dictionary.jpg\" alt=\"image from a manuscript page of Ricci&#039;s original dictionary\" title=\"ricci_first_dictionary\" width=\"510\" height=\"343\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnificent Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise, better known as le Grand Ricci, has just been released on DVD, almost a decade after its release in book form and exactly four hundred years after the death of Matteo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2010\/le-grand-ricci-now-available-on-dvd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,46,92,28,95,32,138,38,24,3],"tags":[681,516],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-classical-chinese","category-dictionary","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-mandarin","category-philology","category-software","category-taipei","category-taiwan","tag-grand-ricci","tag-matteo-ricci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}