Excerpt from Chats in Chinese: A Translation of the Tʻan a Translation Pien As a further help two vocabularies have been added, one of phrases chosen from the text with their equivalents, romanisation, tones of the accented word and reference numbers, the other, of nearly the same phrases, giving the English first. The Roman numerals indicate the exercise in the Chinese text, the Arabic, the column, in which the phrase occurs. This enables one to see the expression in situ no small advantage. 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.