1200 Chinese basic characters; an elementary text book adapted from the "Thousand character lessons - Simon, Walter ed. 1893-; Yen, Yangch'u 1894- (London London, Lund, Humphries, 1957)
"The present book is an adaptation of the Pyngmin chiantzyh keh (`Common people's thousand character lessons'), pulished by Commercial Press, Shanghai, in 1927. The edition of 1927 is the third recast of lessons first published in 1921 by the Chinese Y.M.C.A. They were then edited by Dr. Y.C. James Yen (Yen Yangchu)".
Chinese text accompanied by English translation and transcription into the Chinese Latin script (gwoyeu nomatzhy).
Title also in Chinese on t.p. : Thousand character lessons for the common people. Chinese-English bilingual.
Keywords: Chinese language -- Writing