Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010

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Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010

This paper examines the history of self-instructional manuals of (Mandarin) Chinese published in Britain between 1900 and 2010, one of the main ways of learning Chinese for most of the 20th century in Britain, when Chinese instruction was virtually non-existent in schools and barely available in adu...

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Main Author:	McLelland, Nicola
Format:	Article
Published:	Chinese Language Teachers Association 2015
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29360/

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