DYER BALL, J.

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How to Write Chinese. Containing General Rules for Writing Chinese, and Particular Directions for Writing the Radicals. Second edition, corrected from the first edition of 1888, of this rare primer, which aids the student of written Chinese by breaking characters into their component strokes and radicals.J. Dyer Ball, a member of the Hong Kong Civil Service and a resident in China for four decades, wrote many works on Chinese language and culture. He also devised a new system for romanizing Cantonese.

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