無師自曉 Wu shi zi xiao, The self-educator
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Title
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無師自曉 Wu shi zi xiao, The self-educator
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Subject
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Foreign workers, Chinese
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Language and languages
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Chinese language
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Books
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Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
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Category
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1. Settlement
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Author
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Johnson, Sun
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Place of Publication
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Sydney
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Keywords
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Occupations
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Social conditions
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Current holder
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National Library of Australia
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Period of reference
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1892 – 1892
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Item number
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216435
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Access rights
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Digitised
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Rights
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Out of Copyright
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Country of origin
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Australia
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Language
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Chinese
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English
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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.
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Physical format
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Books
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Related resources
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https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/4334/