Studies In Crap: Say It In Chinese and The Bicentennial Beef Cookbook

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

Say It In Chinese

Author: Some anonymous, delicate artist, daring to flourish in a world of bureaucrats

Publisher: Foreign Language Press, Beijing

Date: 1981

Discovered at: Disabled American Veterans Thrift Store, 80th & Wornall

The Cover Promises: How to say it in Chinese.

Representative Quotes:

page 12:

I wish you success in your modernization programme.

Zhu nimen shixian xiandaihua.

page 39:

Do the kindergarten staff members earn workpoints, or are they paid a salary?

Youern de gongzuo renyuan shi zheng gongfenr, haishi zheng gongzi?

page 58:

How many metres do I need for a dress for a large six-year-old?

Yi-ge gaoger liusui haiz zuo yi-jian lianyiqun xuyao ji-mi liaoz?