Changi Cantonese instruction notebooks, 1942-45

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Containers:
Box 2
Component identifier:
File 4-9
Content Summary:

Harrison was a prisoner from February 1942-May 1944 in Changi and then in Sime Road till August 1945. Prisoners organised classes amongst themselves and John Harrison taught Cantonese. These volumes, bound in Changi, were mainly written out in connection with his teaching.

(i) Chinese characters grouped under radicals - very detailed with some unusual radicals. Notes on Chinese account books.

(ii) Radicals of Chinese characters

(iii) Hokkien. Province of China dialect notes. Lists of trades, measurements, amusements etc.

(iv) Verse and prose (French and English), lists of identity disks by Nationality, names and addresses of people in England and Australia.

(v) A book of verse for boys and girls compiled by J.C. Smith.

(vi) Pink 'Jotter book'-used after volume 1 of the diary was finished.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were donated to the Library in 1994.

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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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