Ebook: Jr. Chinese Pidgin English Grammar and Texts

American Oriental Society: Journal of the American Oriental Society. - Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1944), pp. 95-113Chinese Pidgin English is the ' minimum language in use since the early eighteenth century in the Treaty Ports and in central and southern China, as a medium of intercourse between Chinese and foreigners (chiefly native speakers of standard English [British and American]). The social situations in which it is used are primarily those of master (foreigner) and servant (Chinese), and of business relations, especially in retail shops catering to foreigners; during the period of greatest expansion of CP in the nineteenth century, it was also used in other situations involving contact between foreigners and Chinese (of the upper classes as well as servants and tradesmen).