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INTRODUCTION TO SPOKEN CHINESE (American Edition)
by Brandt, J.J
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Near Fine/No Jacket
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About This Item
Beijing, China: Beijing Fa-wen Library, 1943. American Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/AS NEW & Bright. Vintage, 1944, Yale Univ Press Edition. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF w/light rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine edges. DJ/None. PO label to front cover verson, inked name to fEP. Textbook. Introduction to conversational Chinese by J. J. Brandt (1869 - 1944). 130 pgs. 30 lessons, w/ideographs. Convenient dictionary of some 6,000 separate words, terms & expressions at book's end. Given the passage of time, volume is a prime historic resource to how Chinese was spoken prior to World War II.
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- Title
- INTRODUCTION TO SPOKEN CHINESE (American Edition)
- Author
- Brandt, J.J
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/Stitched
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- American Edition, First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beijing Fa-wen Library
- Place of Publication
- Beijing, China
- Date Published
- 1943
- Pages
- 130
- Keywords
- Historical, Chinese Spoken Language, Textbook, Chinese, Conversational
- Bookseller catalogs
- Linguistics; Memoir;
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