1916 English Phrase Book for Chinese-Americans

Heading: (Chinese-American)
Author: (Stedman, Thomas Lathrop and K.P. Lee)
Title: A Chinese and English phrase book in the Canton dialect; or, Dialogues on ordinary and familiar subjects for the use of the Chinese resident in America, and of Americans desirous of learning the Chinese language…
Place Published: New York
Publisher:William R. Jenkins
Date Published: Ca. 1916
Description:

24pp.ads + 187pp. 5x6½", original wrappers. Chinese and English text.

Written in 1881 by Stedman, a prominent New York physician with no apparent Chinese ties, and Lee, a Chinese-American Yale graduate working as interpreter at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.

This book went through several reprintings. The one that matches the pagination of this copy was printed in Shanghai in 1916, though, despite having no colophon, it was clearly issued by a New York publisher of foreign language texts whose ads fill the first two dozen pages of the book. From the various sample dialogues offered, it was apparently intended for use by an well-educated Chinese- American immigrants.
Condition Report: Wear and chips to edges; cover stained and creased; good.