1200 Chinese basic characters : an elementary text book adapted from the ʻThousand character lessons / Ping min qian zi ke. Simon, Walter 1893-1981. Yen, Y. C. James, 1893-1990. Ping min qian zi ke. Chinese language Readers. 495.1 SIT 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)" London : Lund, Humphries, 1947. 1947. 1947 Text xvi, 339 p. : eng eng chi