A Na-Khi–English Encyclopedic Dictionary
This is a Chinese translation of the front matter and a sample of entries from Joseph F. Rock's posthumously published A Na-Khi–English Encyclopedic Dictionary (1963). It opens with Giuseppe Tucci's foreword praising Rock's decades of fieldwork among the Naxi and announcing Rock's death just as the book went to press, followed by Rock's own preface recounting the dictionary's turbulent 1922–1949 compilation history across Lijiang, Washington, and Honolulu amid war, inflation, and manuscript losses, and describing its scope (thousands of pictographic entries plus catalogues of deities, place names, and ritual texts drawn from Dongba manuscripts). The remainder consists of sample dictionary entries — glosses for pictographs covering kinship terms, divination and funerary rites, mythological figures, animals, tools, and everyday vocabulary — many of them fragmentary because the entries relied heavily on pictographs and phonetic diacritics that did not survive OCR scanning of the source PDF.
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