Introduction To Classical Chinese

Author : Bryan W. Van Norden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603846059

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Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Bryan W. Van Norden Pdf

This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options. It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to relate those options to philosophical figures and movements from the West. I recommend it very highly.--Lee H. Yearley, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University

Author : Kai Vogelsang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198834977

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Introduction to Classical Chinese by Kai Vogelsang Pdf

This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years ago. Although it was used as a living language for only a relatively short time, it was the foundation of Chinese education throughout the Imperial age, and formed the basis of a literary tradition that continues to the present day. This book offers students all the necessary tools to read, understand, and analyse Classical Chinese texts, including: step-by-step clearly illustrated descriptions of syntactic features; core vocabulary lists; introductions to relevant historical and cultural topics; selected readings from classical literature with original commentaries and in-depth explanations; introductions to dictionaries and other reference works on the study of ancient China; and a guide to philological methods used in the critical analysis of Classical Chinese texts. The extensive glossary provides phonological reconstructions, word classes, English translations, and citations to illustrate usage, while the up-to-date bibliography serves as a valuable starting point for further research.

Author : Bryan W. Van Norden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781624668234

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Classical Chinese for Everyone by Bryan W. Van Norden Pdf

In just thirteen brief, accessible chapters, this engaging little book takes "absolute beginners" from the most basic questions about the language (e.g., what does a classical Chinese character look like?) to reading and understanding selections from classical Chinese philosophical texts and Tang dynasty poetry. "An outstanding introduction to reading classical Chinese. Van Norden does a wonderful job of clearly explaining the basics of classical Chinese, and he carefully takes the reader through beautifully chosen examples from the textual tradition. An invaluable work." —Michael Puett, Harvard University

Author : Raymond Stanley Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233904820

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A New Introduction to Classical Chinese by Raymond Stanley Dawson Pdf

Author : Philip J. Ivanhoe,Bryan W. Van Norden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872207803

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Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Second Edition) by Philip J. Ivanhoe,Bryan W. Van Norden Pdf

This new edition offers expanded selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu); two new works, the dialogues 'Robber Zhi' and 'White Horse'; a concise general introduction; brief introductions to, and selective bibliographies for, each work; and four appendices that shed light on important figures, periods, texts, and terms in Chinese thought.

Author : Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780774859851

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Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar by Edwin G. Pulleyblank Pdf

Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is a comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese. Focusing on the language of the high classical period, which ranges from the time of Confucius to the unification of the empire by Qin in 221, the book pays particular attention to the Mencius, the L�nyu, and, to a lesser extent, the Zu�zhu�n texts. Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar starts with a brief historical overview and a discussion of the relation between the writing system and the phonology. This is followed by an outline of overall principles of word order and sentence structure. The next sections deal with the main sentence types � nominal predicates, verbal predicates, and numberical expressions, which constitute a special type of quasiverbal predication. The final sections cover such topics as subordinate constitutents of sentences, nondeclarative sentence types, and complex sentences.

Author : Raymond Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251714116

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A New Introduction to Classical Chinese by Raymond Dawson Pdf

Author : Harold Shadick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0801498376

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文言文入门 by Harold Shadick Pdf

Volume II consists of vocabularies for all of the texts and exercises in Volume I of this work, intended to provide a foundation in the grammar of classical Chinese.

Author : Liu Lihong
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789882370579

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Classical Chinese Medicine by Liu Lihong Pdf

The English edition of Liu Lihong’s milestone work is a sublime beacon for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated “integration” of traditional Chinese wisdom with Western science during the last sixty years, and represents an ardent appeal for the recognition of Chinese medicine as a science in its own right. Professor Liu’s candid presentation has made this book a bestseller in China, treasured not only by medical students and doctors, but by vast numbers of non-professionals who long for a state of health and well-being that is founded in a deeper sense of cultural identity. Oriental medicine education has made great strides in the West since the 1970s, but clear guidelines regarding the “traditional” nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) remain undefined. Classical Chinese Medicine not only delineates the educational and clinical problems faced by the profession in both East and West, but transmits concrete and inspiring guidance on how to effectively engage with ancient texts and designs in the postmodern age. Using the example of the Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage), one of the most important Chinese medicine classics, Liu Lihong develops a compelling roadmap for holistic medical thinking that links the human body to nature and the universe at large.

Author : Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780691186559

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Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry and Prose by Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss Pdf

This supplemental volume continues the rigorous standard set forth in the main, three-volume Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader while reinforcing its linguistic lessons from carefully chosen representative works. Comprised of three parts--"Poetry," "Lyrics," and "Prose"--it presents texts, chronologically, that represent the artistic embodiment of China's Confucian and Taoist thought. Two introductions separately describe the structural and formal features of regulated verse and parallel prose; each genre is unique to Chinese literature yet both share common characteristics tempered by the Chinese language. The main text and its four supplementary volumes together represent the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings by three members of the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University, it is the definitive new resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language or culture.

Author : Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781400885640

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Classical Chinese by Naiying Yuan,Hai-tao Tang,James Geiss Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175833

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An Introduction to Chinese Poetry by Michael Fuller Pdf

"This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those with no knowledge of Chinese—as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry. The core chapters present the major poets and poems of the Chinese poetic tradition from earliest times to the lyrics of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).Each chapter begins with an overview of the historical context for the poetry of a particular period and provides a brief biography for each poet. Each of the poems appears in the original Chinese with a word-by-word translation, followed by Michael A. Fuller’s unadorned translation, and a more polished version by modern translators. A question-based study guide highlights the important issues in reading and understanding each particular text.Designed for classroom use and for self-study, the textbook’s goal is to help the reader appreciate both the distinctive voices of the major writers in the Chinese poetic tradition and the grand contours of the development of that tradition."

Author : Paul Rouzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781684174454

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A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese by Paul Rouzer Pdf

"Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give students a grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate the changes in written Chinese over the centuries.Each lesson consists of a text, a vocabulary list featuring discussions of meaning and usage, explanations of grammar, and explications of difficult passages. The standard modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean pronunciations are indicated for each character, making this a learning tool for native speakers of those languages as well.Appendices give suggestions for further readings, review common and significant words, explain the radical system, and provide Japanese kanbun readings for all the selections. Glossaries of all vocabulary items and pronunciation indexes for modern Chinese and Korean are also included."

Author : David Hinton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466873223

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Classical Chinese Poetry by David Hinton Pdf

With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place. Unlike earlier anthologies of Chinese poetry, Hinton's book focuses on a relatively small number of poets, providing selections that are large enough to re-create each as a fully realized and unique voice. New introductions to each poet's work provide a readable history, told for the first time as a series of poetic innovations forged by a series of master poets. From the classic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on nature, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary, presenting a literature both radically new and entirely resonant, in Classical Chinese Poetry.

Author : Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780231554787

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How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese by Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai Pdf

This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese presents more than forty prose works, either excerpts or in full, from antiquity through the Qing dynasty. While teaching readers how to appreciate the rich tradition of Chinese prose in its original form, the book uses these texts to introduce classical Chinese to advanced learners, helping them develop reading comprehension and vocabulary. It offers a systematic guide to classical Chinese grammar and abundant notes on vocabulary, and features an extensive network of notes, exercises, and cross-references. The book includes modern translations of the forty prose works in simplified Chinese, presented alongside the original texts in traditional Chinese. It also includes expert commentaries on each text’s distinctive aesthetic qualities as well as historical and cultural contexts. The book comprises thirty-eight lessons within eight units, organized chronologically to reflect the emergence of major prose genres. It is a major contribution to the teaching and study of classical Chinese language and literature. Audio recordings of all forty texts are available online free of charge.