RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1965 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/s752cj653 58 J. MCCOY 'warm',chen 'spring', fen 'to instruct". -engteng 'to wait', ceng 'past, finished'. -i 豬 ci‘pig,魚 i fish’,書 si book’,樹 si ‘tree',主ci 'master', ci to know', ci 'branch', ci 'property', Biisi É si "teacher', i 'two'. --iu miu 'temple', siu 'small', khiu 'bridge', thiu kiu 'to call', ✯ tiu ‘to -it -ik 'to jump', * liu 'material', throw away". #cit 'to receive', ] pit 'different', it 'hot', thit 'iron', thit 'to take off', sit 'snow', it ‘month', hit 'blood". lik 'strength', sik ‘color.uik ‘region', cik *mat', tik 'drop'. kin 'to investigate', -in lin 'connecting', 'slice', khin 'to owe', tin 'dot', sin 'wire', in 'word', phin lin 'confusion', chin 'complete', it in ‘far'. -inging to respond', ✈ sing 'to ascend', ping 'soldier', ling 'neck', sing 'star', -iek R chiek 'foot measure', -iengpieng 'sick', -ou hieng 'light', to 'much', ‘old woman', pou 'cloth, uing ‘eternal'. thiek 'to kick',13 pieng 'cake', # sieng 'sound', thieng 'to listen'. co ‘left side', 'hungry', pho ko 'to pass over', E uo 'to lie down'. lou 'slave', mou 'military', lou 'old', kou ‘to announce', # mou 'mother'. -okpok 'thin', ' cok 'to do', iok 'weak', kok 'suburb', (a surname), khok 'really'. -on hon 'Han dynasty'.14 -ong pong 'to help', thong 'soup', iong 'sheep', E cong 'artisan', long 'two', fong 'falsehood', ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1975 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d 42 WELLINGTON K. K. CHAN 23 P'eng Tse-i, "Shih-chiu shih-chi," 1:73, 90-95. 24 Edgar Wickberg, The Chinese in Philippine Life (New Haven, 1965), pp. 216-17. 25 Chang Chih-tung, Chang Wen-hsiang-kung chi (The papers of Chang Chih-tung), ed. Hsu T'ung-hsin (Peiping, 1919-21), "tsou-kao," 12:1-5b. 26 Ibid. 27 E.g., Hsiang-kang Hua-tzu jih-pao (Chinese Mail of Hong Kong), 1901: 4/27, 5/9. 28 Hua-tzu jih-pao, 22/3/1901. 29 Mark Elvin, "The Gentry Democracy in Chinese Shanghai,” in Jack Gray (ed), Modern China's Search for Political Form (Oxford, 1969), pp. 41-65. 30 Imperial Maritime Customs, Decennial Reports 1882-1891 (Shanghai, 1893), p. 34. 31 Morse, Gilds of China, pp. 53-54; Decennial Reports, 1882-1891, pp. 537-38. 32 In 1892, those of Yunnan and Kweichow were added. 33 Decennial Reports, 1882-1891, pp. 119-20. 34 Sheng Hsuan-huai, Yü-chai ts'un-kao ch'u-k'an (Collected drafts of Sheng Hsuan-huai, first issue), ed. Lü Ching-tuan (Shanghai, 1939), 7:36a. 35 The China Weekly Review (Shanghai), 24/7/1926, pp. 188, 190. 36 Hua-tzu jih-pao, 10/10/1907; 28/10/1908. 37 The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce: The Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Issue (Singapore, 1954), pp. 2-3. These practices, somewhat modified, are still going on today, see Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore Daily), 9/2/1975, p. 3. 38 See my own forthcoming article "The Chamber of Commerce in Late Ch'ing China." ** 39 North-China Herald (Shanghai), 23/2/1906. 40 Chang Ts'un-wu, Chung-Mei kung-yüeh fang-chiao (Disputes over the Sino-American labor agreement) (Taipei, 1965). ================================================================================