One Minute Mandarin A Beginner's Guide to Spoken Chinese for Professionals.pdf

One Minute Mandarin

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One Minute Mandarin

A beginner’s guide to spoken

Chinese for professionals

Peter Coyne

Material from The Analects of Confucius , translated by Simon Leys.

Norton & Company, Inc.

First published in 2008

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Coyne, Peter.

One minute Mandarin : a beginner’s guide to spoken Chinese

for professionals / author, Peter Coyne.

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008.

978 1 74175 459 9 (pbk.) :

Mandarin dialects - Conversation and phrase books (for

professionals) - English. Chinese language - Conversation

and phrase books (for professionals) - English. Chinese

language - Business Chinese.

495.182421

Set in 11/14.5 pt Warnock Pro by Bookhouse, Sydney

Printed by CMO Image Printing, Singapore

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who showed that it could be done