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Mastering Languages, Taming the World: The Production and Circulation of European Dictionaries of Asian Languages (16th-19th Centuries) Edited by Michela Bussotti and François Lachaud. 503 pp. Paris, École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2023.

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Mastering Languages, Taming the World: The Production and Circulation of European Dictionaries of Asian Languages (16th-19th Centuries) Edited by Michela Bussotti and François Lachaud. 503 pp. Paris, École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2023.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2025

Walter N. Hakala
Walter N. Hakala*
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