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Concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary

Anthony Paul Cowie and A. Evison and Yuan Zhu and Jingrong Wu and Liangbi Wang and Yongchang Ren and Jing Zhu Wu and Ping Mei and Xiaoping Ren

Cowie, Anthony Paul; A. Evison; Yuan Zhu; Jingrong Wu; Liangbi Wang; Yongchang Ren; Jing Zhu Wu; Ping Mei; Xiaoping Ren;

Concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary

Oxford Univ Press / Commercial Press (Shang wu yin shu guan) Hongkong 1986, 600 pages

ISBN 0195840488, 9780195840483

Extremely sparse in its meta-matter - no introduction; no antecedents, only
a under 1-pg preface in Chinese.  Even the language is not specified
(presumably Mandarin), though for the characters alone this wouldn't
matter.