Record Details

Parsons Family

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Field Value
 
Title Parsons Family
 
Creator Parsons | Harry | 1878-1952 | missionary
Parsons | Edith Annie Kate | b 1876 | missionary
Parsons | Richard Keith | b 1916 | Methodist minister
Parsons | Philip Kenneth | b 1916 | Methodist minister
 
Subject Ancient religions
Asian cultures
Asian languages
Books
Children of missionaries
Childrens books
Chinese
Christianity
Christians
Clergy
Colloquial language
Dialects
Dictionaries
Disappearing languages
Ethnic groups
Guides
Language minorities
Language policy
Languages
Lay missionaries
Lexicography
Methodism
Methodists
Missionaries
Missionary work
National cultures
Ordained missionaries
Protestantism
Protestant nonconformists
Protestant nonconformity
Protestants
Publications
Reference materials
Religions
Religious activities
Religious groups
Religious institutions
Religious movements
South and Southeast Asian languages
Spoken language
Teaching materials
Textbooks
Transliteration
Tribes
Vocabularies
Wives of missionaries
Women missionaries
Writing systems
Communications media
Information sciences
Nonconformists
Nonconformity
 
Description

Papers, 1902-1998, of the Parsons family, comprising three volumes of typescript copies of letters (1902-1926) written by the Rev and Mrs Parsons from Yunnan, China, the subjects including family matters and mission activities, descriptions of local people and culture, and references to the Miao language; unpublished Hua Miao-English dictionary and phrase book written by P Kenneth and R Keith Parsons, 1998; publications using 'Reformed' Pollard script, 1951-1994, including text books and school primer (some photocopies), collected by them.


 
Publisher School of Oriental and African Studies
 
Date 2008-02-07
 
Type text
 
Format text/html
 
Identifier http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=139&inst_id=19
 
Rights

Unrestricted.

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