THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND HOW TO LEARN IT : A Manual For Beginners

Hillier, Sir Walter

Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London, 1916

About this Item

Complete in a single volume. Contents: The Written Language; The Spoken Language; Table of Sounds; Progressive Exercises; Chinese Text of Exercises; The Radicals; A List of One Thousand Characters; Index of Characters Arranged Under Their Radicals. Stories include: The Dog That Repaid a Kindness; The Story of the Magic Bean; The Recompense of Virtue and Wickedness, in English and Chinese Text. Frontis illus. a page of Chinese Characters. Blue cloth cover with Black English Title and Chinese Characters on front. Gilt Lettering on spine. VIII/8 Preliminary Pages including Prefaces to first and second editions. Main Text 297 p. pages, 8 1/2" Tall. some edge wear. Spine slightly tanned. Inscriptions on endpapers dated 1918. No other inscriptions. Pages in very good, clean condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND HOW TO LEARN IT : A Manual For Beginners
• Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London
• Publication Date: 1916
• Binding: Decorative Cloth
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Near Very Good