Download or read book Revival: An English-Chinese Dictionary of Peking Colloquial (1945) written by Walter Caine Hillier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the marks attached to the phonetic rendering of the Chinese words in this volume differ from those assigned to them in the dictionaries. These apparent discrepencies are intentional, the tones being given as they are applied, or appear to the ear of the compiler to be applied, by the natives of Peking.