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Hua-wen-ch'u-chieh. Chinese language lessons (1943), ix, 312 p., and accompanying 30 double-faced 10-inch records (1947). The California College in China Foundation, Inc., 1700 Spruce St., Berkeley 9. $46.25.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
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- Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1948
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1 The 140th radical in its commonest form (ts'ao-tzu-t'ou) is given two different stroke orders; the 38th radical (nü ) is written in two different ways — with four strokes in three instances and three strokes in four instances. While admittedly there is no standard for stroke order, I see no excuse for the latter, and would prefer consistency for the former, at least in an elementary text.
2 I am happy to note that Chao and Yang, Concise dictionary of spoken Chinese, pp. 147–48, and Simon, A beginners' Chinese-English dictionary, p. 128 give examples of both uses.