無師自曉 Wu shi zi xiao, The self-educator
Item
- Title
- 無師自曉 Wu shi zi xiao, The self-educator
- Subject
- Foreign workers, Chinese
- Language and languages
- Chinese language
- Books
- Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
- Category
- 1. Settlement
- Author
- Johnson, Sun
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Keywords
- Occupations
- Social conditions
- Person
- Johnson, Sun
- Current holder
- National Library of Australia
- Period of reference
- 1892 – 1892
- Item number
- 216435
- Access rights
- Digitised
- Rights
-
Out of Copyright
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Place
- Sydney
- Language
- Chinese
- English
- Description from source
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178 pages : 19 cm. Ying wen za hua, wu shi zi xiao = Chinese and English, self-educator This edition contains a Chinese preface, lists of numbers, days of the week and time-related words and is then divided into sections with words and phrases related to different occupations and situations (words for vegetablemen and fruiterers; stores; carpenters; in court; pressing for debts; applying for a situation; ordering clothes; buying clothes, shoes, socks etc; cooks; hawkers; to let houses and gardens; making bargains; on board steamers; troubles in the street; buying medicine from dispensaries). It finishes with a list of names of people and occupations and some sample documents (addressed envelope, invoice/receipt, cheque etc). There are advertisements at the beginning and scattered throughout the volume.
- Physical format
- Books
- Related resources
- The self educator / by Sun Johnson [1904]
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| The self educator / by Sun Johnson [1904] | Text |
| 華英通語集全 Huaying tongyu jiquan (A Collection of Common Phrases in Chinese and English) | Text |