Stock ID #130674 1200 Chinese Basic Characters. An elementary text book adapted from the `Thousand Character Lessons'. W. SIMON.

1200 Chinese Basic Characters. An elementary text book adapted from the `Thousand Character Lessons'.

London. Percy Lund, Humphries. 1957. Third revised edition. Stock ID #130674

xvi + 333pp, index, appendix, dustjacket little worn.

"This elementary textbook makes available for the first time to the Western student two important achievements of the New China: Firstly the famous "Thousand Character Lessons" (Pyngmin Chian Tzuh Keh), one of China's foremost weapons in her great fight against illiteracy, are reprinted in their original form with the addition of an English translation and a Chinese-English Vocabulary and secondly the New Official Chinese Latin Script (Gwoyeu Romatzyh), in which the tones of the words are apparent from the orthography, has been adopted for the transcription of the lessons..... In this third revised edition a special appendix has been added which acquaints the student with the 'Draft Scheme of a Chinese Phonetic Alphabet' which was published in February 1956.

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