Note 295 — Chapter X · STRUCTURE OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.
Reading edition
See page 193. In order that the Manchu portion of this famous poem might not appear inferior to the Chinese, the Emperor ordered thirty-two varieties of Manchu characters to be invented and published in like manner with the others. Rémusat, Mélanges, Tome II., p. 59. Père Amiot, Éloge de la Ville de Moukden. Trad. en françois. Paris, 1770.