Excerpt from The Sacred Edict: With a Translation of the Colloquial Rendering Notes and Vocabulary The Student of Chinese whose aim is to acquire a good knowledge of colloquial, is speedily confronted by two difficulties: On the one hand, few teachers will talk to their pupils as they tall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.