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Title of Book / Newspaper / Magazine / Audiovisual Material：Grammatical Studies in the Colloquial Language of Northen China: especially designed for the use of missionaries

Author：J. S. McIlvaine

Publishing House：Shanghai: American Presbyterina Mission Press, 1880

Shelving Location： Senado Library

Introduction：

Jasper Scudder McIlvaine 是一位美國北長老會（Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (North)）傳教士，出生於美國新澤西州。1868年被派到北京，與William Thomas Morrison ( 1835-1869) 接替丁韙良（William Alexander Parsons Martin, 1827-1916）的工作，並繼續在中國北方建立傳教點。一直以來，天主教和基督新教都以教育作為傳播福音的方式，因此傳教士非常注重在中國各地建立學校。據資料所載，他們的學校得到海關總稅務司赫德（Robert Hart, 1835-1911）提供經費，因此得以在北京順利開辦教育。他們對科學教育甚為重視，學校除在周日進行基督教的傳道和學習外，平時則學習中國經典、地理、自然哲學和算術等學科。當缺乏某些科目的教科書時，傳教士們都會親自撰寫。這本《漢語的語法》就是由傳教士撰寫。1871年McIlvaine離開北京後，轉到山東專責尋找傳教點，1877年，他因患肺炎卒於濟南。

 

透過Jasper Scudder McIlvaine的序言，讀者可以領略到作者對中國的文字與文學的讚賞。同時也反映他在中國哲學思想上，找到中國的倫理思想與西方的基督精神上的多處共通點。在漢語正音的問題上，他沿用前人威妥瑪的系統，同時參照西方漢學家如馬士曼(Joshua Marshman, 1768-1837)、馬若瑟（Joseph de Prémare, 1666-1736）、梁茹蓮（Stanislas Aignan Julien，1797-1873）和艾約瑟（Joseph Edkins , 1823-1905 ）的研究成果。全書分23個小章節，在西洋語法的基礎上，找出漢語與拉丁語的一些通則，再加入自己多年的學習心得，為這範疇的研究帶來一些新的成果。

 

參考網址:

 

“Papers of Reverend Jasper McIlvaine”, National Library of Australia.

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