Classical Chinese : A Basic Reader

James Geiss

ISBN 10: 0691174571 / ISBN 13: 9780691174570

Published by Princeton University Press, 2017

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Classical Chinese is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings, it sets a new standard for the field. Originally published in three volumes, Classical Chinese appears here in one convenient and easy-to-use volume.Classical Chinese contains forty selections from texts written between the fifth century BC and the first century AD, during which the classical Chinese language was fully developed and standardized. These passages, which express key themes in Chinese humor, wit, wisdom, moral conviction, and political ideals, are arranged in the order of complexity of the grammatical patterns they exemplify. Uniquely, each text is translated into both modern Chinese and English. A detailed glossary defines unfamiliar terms and names found in the first part of the textbook, and the last section features in-depth grammatical analyses, in which every sentence in the main selections is fully diagrammed to show the grammatical relations between their various parts. Corresponding exercises review and reinforce the materials. Four supplementary volumes an introduction to grammar, readings in poetry and prose, selected historical texts, and selected philosophical texts are separately available for use in conjunction with this basic reader.Classical Chinese provides a definitive resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language and culture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Classical Chinese : A Basic Reader
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691174571
• ISBN 13: 9780691174570
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 280W x 216H x 48D millimeters 280 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 48 millimeters depth
• Weight: 2180 grams

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Classical Chinese is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings, it sets a new standard for the field. Originally published in three volumes, Classical Chinese appears here in one convenient and easy-to-use volume.

Classical Chinese contains forty selections from texts written between the fifth century BC and the first century AD, during which the classical Chinese language was fully developed and standardized. These passages, which express key themes in Chinese humor, wit, wisdom, moral conviction, and political ideals, are arranged in the order of complexity of the grammatical patterns they exemplify. Uniquely, each text is translated into both modern Chinese and English. A detailed glossary defines unfamiliar terms and names found in the first part of the textbook, and the last section features in-depth grammatical analyses, in which every sentence in the main selections is fully diagrammed to show the grammatical relations between their various parts. Corresponding exercises review and reinforce the materials. Four supplementary volumes―an introduction to grammar, readings in poetry and prose, selected historical texts, and selected philosophical texts―are separately available for use in conjunction with this basic reader.

Classical Chinese provides a definitive resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language and culture.

About the Author

Naiying Yuan and Haitao Tang are lecturers emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at Princeton University. James Geiss (1950–2000) earned his PhD from Princeton University in 1979 and was a lifelong Ming scholar. Together, they are the coauthors of several books on classical Chinese, including Classical Chinese: Introduction to Grammar (Princeton).