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As the Chinese See Us Chinese (Classic Reprint) - Thomas G. Selby, Paperback
FB &c Ltd
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Release Date
3/8/2018
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ISBN-13
9781330050033 | 978-1-330-05003-3
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ISBN
1330050037 | 1-330-05003-7
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Format
Paperback
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Author(s)
Thomas G. Selby
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Excerpt from As the Chinese See Us ChineseVice-consul West - I will soon put the details right, and embody your suggestions in my final copy.Pundit Tang - Yes! Yes! The tones are good, but you drawl the lower departing a little too much, and the local sound for Buddha is neither a long u nor a short a, but two parts of the one and three parts of the other. The nasal ng you must produce as if you had polypus. Do not let the breath come through the lips. keep the mouth open, and coop up the sound half-way between the throat and the nose. Yes! Better. The Vice Consul will speak like a man of the province in another year, better even than the missionaries.Vice-consul fest - Nothing going on of interest in the city just now, I suppose?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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