Author: MOERMAN JZ., J. (EDITOR),
Title: Van Goden en Menschen. Oude verhalen uit een oud Land voor de hoogste klassen der Holl. Chineesche Scholen [in Nederlandsch Indië]. Orig. edn.
Description: Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1931. 2 parts in one volume. small 8°. Orig. lettered boards, dustjacket with a large coloured illustration pasted-on front side.[1] (author's preface with on verso table of contents), 109; [1] (author's preface with table on contents on verso) 116pp. col. frontispiece to part 1, 7 other plates of which 5 coloured, all after drawings after traditional Chinese style by Menno [van Meeteren Brouwer], full-page plan of Peking with key at tail, Gate to the Confucius temple, Peking, [2]pp. of publ. list at end of first part. A collection of tog. 28 myths and tales edited and translated by author after classic chinese stories and literature. A reader on behalf of highest forms dutch-chinese primary school in dutch colonial Indonesia. Authentic but simplified information is supplied to ethnic Chinese elder children about chinese ancestry, culture and heritage, religious belief, language and literature. Good to very good copy. (fr. inner joint of dustjacked repaired with tape, endpapers foxed).

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