1200 Chinese basic characters
Subtitle: an elementary text book adapted from the 'Thousand character lessons'
By: edited by W. Simon ; with a foreword by Wang Yun-Wu.
Contributors: Yen, Y. C. James, 1893-; Simon, Walter, 1893-
Publisher: Lund Humphries & Company
Published: 1944
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Chinese language -- Readers.
Other titles: Pʻing min chʻien tzŭ kʻo.
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 'new official Chinese Latin script' (gwoyeu romatzyh)"

"The present book is an adaptation of the Pyngmin chiantzyh keh ('Common people's thousand character lessons'), 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)"--Introd.

Includes index.