Author : Paul F. Rouzer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This textbook contains 40 lessons designed to introduce the beginning student to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese. The lessons are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts (Shuo yuan, Shiji, Mencius, Zhuangzi, and Lienu zhuan) selected to give students a thorough grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate some of the changes in written Chinese over the centuries.
Author : Paul Rouzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1684174457
"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 : Paul F. Rouzer
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674005273
The essays focus on what these writings can tell us not only about gender relations but also about the ways in which these male authors attempted to define themselves and their place in the political and social world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Archie Barnes
Publisher : WritersPrintShop
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 9781904623748
The core of this handbook for Classical Chinese grammar was wriiten by Archie Barnes, Head of the Chinese Department at Durham University (1961-1984). It was used for over 30 years by the university's Classical Chinese undergraduates. It has been significantly reworked and expanded for publication by Don Starr (Spalding Lecturer in Chinese Language and Civilisation at Durham University) and Graham Ormerod (a former Modern/Classical Chinese student). It has been complemented by new sections on Exposure, Interrogatives and Function Characters. A dictionary and index are also provided, as well as five annotated stories from Mrs Y.C. Liu's "Fifty Chinese Stories." This version uses original Chinese character texts, 'trots' (a translation of each character in context together with its pinyin transcription), comprehensive footnotes, and a full translation into English.
Author : Archie Barnes
Publisher : Writersprintshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 9781904623519
This is the first book to approach the study of Classical Chinese through verse instead of prose. Script, grammar and vocabulary are taught from scratch. The work can be used as a first introduction to traditional literary Chinese by anyone with no knowledge of the language. It is also suitable as part of a course in Classical Chinese for private study with or without previous knowledge of Chinese. The exercises are progressive in that each is restricted to the vocabulary and grammar met so far. The book serves as an introduction to Chinese verse for its own sake. It will be of great interest to ethnic Chinese wishing to recover their cultural roots.
Author : Robert Henry Mathews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780674123502
Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Author : Bryan W. Van Norden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1624668232
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 : Kai Vogelsang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198834977
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 : Edward Lawrence Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 041577716X
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Paul Rouzer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295806133
In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyder’s translations (which began to appear that same year), and they have been translated into English more than any other body of Chinese verse. Rouzer investigates how Buddhism defined the way that believers may have read Hanshan in premodern times. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of Chinese literary thought and examines how texts by Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield respond to the East Asian Buddhist tradition.
