Abstract
Yingzi Rumen by Cao Xiang, a native of Shanghai in the late Qing era, was one of the earliest textbooks to record the pronunciation of English using the Shanghai dialect. This was a landmark publication in the history of English-language education, but little attention has been paid to its utility in the study of Shanghai dialect. This paper explores the phonetic correspondences between English and Chinese characters to ascertain the phonetic features of the Shanghai dialect, and then by comparing the ones of which presented in European materials, it sheds new light on the significance of paired speech materials.
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