Wu shi zi xiao / you Sun Junchen = The self-educator / by Sun Johnson
無師自曉 / 由孫俊臣 = The self-educator / by Sun Johnson
- Bib ID:
- 216435
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johnson, Sun, author
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. CHRB 495.182442 J69 copy
- Description:
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- [Sydney] : [publisher not identified], [1892]
- 178 pages : 19 cm
- Summary:
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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.
- Biography/History:
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Sun Johnson (孫俊臣 Sun Junchen) was one of the first editors of the first Chinese-language newspaper in Sydney, the Chinese Australian Herald (廣益華報 [Guangyihuabao]) 1894-1923. He was born in either 1865 or 1868 and educated in Hong Kong and then London before migrating to Sydney in the late 1880s.
- Notes:
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- This phrasebook is a reproduction of handwritten English and Chinese.
- CHRB 495.182442 J69 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3105317113
- Text in Chinese and English.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
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- Self-educator
- Self educator
- Ying wen za hua, wu shi zi xiao = Chinese and English, self-educator
- Chinese and English, self-educator
- 英文雜話 無師自曉 = Chinese and English, self-educator
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1892
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1892
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