{"id":53,"date":"2005-01-16T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-09-16T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T14:39:20","slug":"1872-mandarin-phrasebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/1872-mandarin-phrasebook\/","title":{"rendered":"1872 Mandarin phrasebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just added some selections from an <a href=\"\/romanization\/wadegiles\/giles_samples.html\">1872  Mandarin phrasebook by Herbert Giles<\/a>, from the days even before Wade-Giles.  I think the entries make an interesting comparison with the Lonely Planet phrasebook mentioned  earlier. An example of the Giles approach: &#8220;Poo yow raw shooey&#8221; for <span style=\"font-family: 'arial unicode ms', 'lucida sans unicode', sans-serif;\">&#8220;B&ugrave; y&agrave;o r&egrave; shu&#464;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just added some selections from an 1872 Mandarin phrasebook by Herbert Giles, from the days even before Wade-Giles. I think the entries make an interesting comparison with the Lonely Planet phrasebook mentioned earlier. An example of the Giles approach: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/1872-mandarin-phrasebook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,32,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-romanization","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}