Metadata
| Place |
Sydney |
| Subject | |
| Category | |
| Author |
Johnson, Sun |
| Keywords |
Occupations |
| Current holder | |
| Link | |
| Item number |
216435 |
| Access rights |
Digitised |
| Rights |
Out of Copyright |
| Country of origin | |
| Language | |
| Period of reference |
1892 |
| Description from source |
178 pages : 19 cm. Ying wen za hua, wu shi zi xiao = Chinese and English, self-educator 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. |
| Physical format |
Books |
| Place of Publication |
Sydney |