Title
A set of Zhonghua Wenxuan 中华文选 for Lower Secondary v.1, 4 and 6
Year/Period
Late 1940s
Region
Hong Kong and Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: Dimensions variable. Please refer to individual dimensions.
Accession No.
2021-00355
Collection of
Published by Chung Hwa Book Company, this series of eight Chinese textbooks were was widely used by Chinese-medium secondary schools in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. The textbooks contain essays from prominent Chinese intellectuals over the centuries such as Zhuge Liang, Su Shi, Lu Xun and Liang Qichao.Chung Hwa Book Company was founded in 1912 in Shanghai and established a branch in Singapore in 1923. It ended operations in 1997.
