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Book SynopsisThis 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 a
Table of ContentsPreface List of figures List of abbreviations Abbreviated book titles Introduction Part I 1: Word Classes and Constituents 2: Noun Phrases 1 3: Nominal Clauses 4: Verbal Clauses 5: Objects and Questions 6: Noun Phrases 2 7: Adverbial Modification 8: Prepositional Phrases I 9: Prepositional Phrases II 10: Reference to Time 11: Complements 12: Nominalization 13: Themes 14: Anteposition and Inversion 15: Complex Sentences 1 16: Complex Sentences 2 Part II 17: Lunyu 18: Mengzi 19: Xunzi 20: Zuozhuan 21: Guoyu 22: Laozi 23: Zhuangzi 24: Mozi 25: Guanzi 26: Military Texts 27: Shangjun shu 28: Han Feizi 29: Lüshi chunqiu 30: Zhanguo ce 31: Shiji 32: Yijing 33: Ritual Texts Glossary Bibliography Index
