Abstract: Short Cut to Western Mandarin: First Hundred Steps (Romanized) is a textbook for oral Southwest Mandarin, written by Norwegian missionary Edward Amundsen (1873-1928). Compiled and published in Kunming in 1910, it was one of the few textbooks of Southwest Mandarin in the 20th century. From the perspective of international Chinese teaching materials, this paper focuses on the analysis of the phonetic arrangement of the book, summarizing the author's ideas of phonetic compilation and teaching. It demonstrates that the dialect foundation of this teaching material is not Yunnan dialect as previously believed.

Key words: Short Cut to Western Mandarin, southwest mandarin, international Chinese textbook, phonetics