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'Cantonese popular literature, comic books and movies- in fact, everyday life - is incomprehensible without some understanding of slang. [...] A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang is the one and only, covering everything from common colloquialisms to triad trash-talking.' - Professor Frank Dikotter, author of Mao's Great Famine; 'A very significant contribution to the field of Chinese lexicography. [...] Will shed much light on the kind of Cantonese speech that many people know about, talk about, and use in their daily conversations yet have not considered worthy of serious scholarship.' - Robert S. Bauer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Christopher Hutton studied linguistics at the University of Oxford and Columbia University in New York. He has taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas in Austin and general and English linguistics in Hong Kong. He is the author of The Type-token Relation in Linguistics Theory and Linguistics and the Third Reich. Kingsley Bolton is Chair Professor of English and Head of the English Department at City University of Hong Kong.

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