Ebook: 1000 Chinese foundation characters. Book 3 (250 characters)

Toronto: University of Toronto, School of Chinese studies, 1943. — 24 p. Romanization, translation and vocabulary by William C. White.These "Thousand Foundation Characters" are those selected and used by Dr. Y.C. James Yen, the founder and national director of the Mass Educational Movement in China. Many millions of China's illiterates have learned to read by the use of these primers, and they have been found remarkably useful in enabling westerners to acquire a knowledge of written Chinese. The lessons are in very good Kuo-yu, so they are also most suitable for those desiring knowledge of the spoken language. Chinese characters are essentially basic, each character being a word, and each word being monosyllabic. Sometimes two characters are used together, to express an idea which either character alone might not do so well. They are oftentimes pictographic, especially in their archaic forms, and the more complex characters are usually ideographic.