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Government Officers Chinese language school, Cameron Highlands, Malaya, 1954 - 1956

 File — Box: 1

Scope and Contents

After being hired by the Foreign Service Institute, NCB was loaned to the British colonial Government of Malaya to start a Chinese language school for its police officers and civil servants. NCB taught the Amoy dialect (Hokkien) and created text materials leading to the later publication of his Spoken Amoy Hokkien and Spoken Taiwanese. This was during the "emergency" in Malaya. Many items supplied in xerox.

Dates

  • 1954 - 1956

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

7 cubic feet. (7 cubic feet.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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