1200 Chinese basic characters
Subtitle: an elementary text book adapted from the ʻThousand character lessons.ʼ With a foreword by Wang Yun-wu.
Contributors: Yen, Y. C. James, 1893-
Edition: 2d rev. ed.
Publisher: Lund, Humphries
Published: 1947
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Chinese language -- Readers.
Other titles: Pʻing-min chʻien-tzu ko.
Notes: Title also in Chinese on t. p.: Thousand character lessons for the common people. Chinese-English bilingual.
Chinese text accompanied by English translation and "transcription into the ʻnew official Chinese Latin scriptʼ (gwoyeu romatzyh)"
"An adaptation of the Pyngmin chiantzyh keh (ʻCommon people's thousand character lessonsʼ) published 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 (Yann Yangchu)"