Title
Rhyming Lessons for Women and Children (妇孺韵语) by Xin Zhou Zhi Cheng Shu Ju (星洲志成书局)
Year/Period
Late Qing - Early Republican period
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 24.6 x 13.1 x 0.4 cm
Accession No.
2021-00318
Collection of
The original version of this book was written in the late Qing period by Lu Xiangfu 卢湘父, a friend of prominent reformer Liang Qichao. Both men were proponents of female education. This book was meant to educate both women and children about Confucian morality. Arranged in four-character phrases, it is grouped into rhyming stanzas to make it easy to memorise. This book was printed by Zhi Cheng bookstore in Singapore, which was located in Chinatown. Zhi Cheng and Yong Cheng bookstores were among the earliest bookstores to publish classics and later books in vernacular Chinese.
