An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition (Harvard

An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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This textbook for beginning students contains 35 lessons of increasingly difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns of Classical Chinese and to give them practice in reading a variety of texts. The lessons are structured to encourage students to move beyond reliance on the glossaries provided in the text and to become increasingly familiar with dictionaries and other reference works. The Introduction to the book summarizes the grammar of Literary Chinese. Part I presents eight lessons on parts of speech, verbs, negatives, and the basic sentence structures. Each lesson contains a grammatical overview, a short text with glossary and notes, and practice exercises. Part II consists of sixteen intermediate-level lessons based on increasingly long and complex texts. The advanced-level, Part III, focuses on selections from five important early Chinese authors. Part IV has six lessons based on Tang and Song dynasty prose and poetry. Appendixes provide further discussions of grammatical issues, chronologies and maps, and a glossary of function words.
Country USA
Brand Harvard University Press
Manufacturer Harvard University Asia Center
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780674017269
ReleaseDate 2004-12-15

Country	USA
Brand	Harvard University Press
Manufacturer	Harvard University Asia Center
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780674017269
ReleaseDate	2004-12-15

An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs)