Ya Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ya Chen is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 7. Linguistic aspects of rice terminology: A preliminary study on rice cultivation in Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary): A critical edition of the manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana), Tola, Gabriele, pp. 109–127 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the linguistic and sociocultural insights into rice cultivation up to seventeenth-century China as gleaned from Brollo’s dictionary, further detailing the associated agricultural practices. It is divided into four sections. The first section, through an introduction to… read more
2026 Chapter 6. Female figures in the Dictionarium sinico‑latinum Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary): A critical edition of the manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana), Tola, Gabriele, pp. 96–108 | Chapter
This chapter explores the representation of female figures in the Dictionarium sinico-latinum, a Chinese-Latin dictionary compiled by the Italian Franciscan missionary Basilio Brollo (1648–1704). In addition to having a lexical significance, the Dictionarium offers a rich cultural repository in… read more