A New Introduction to Classical Chinese

by Raymond Dawson

Book Overview

This authoritative new work replaces the author's 1968 edition. It takes into account recent advances in scholarship with entirely revised notes on the text passages and improved and simplified explanations. The book's expansion also permits the author to continue the story beyond the fourth
century B.C. and introduces the reader to the writings of the great Han Dynasty historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, who perfected a narrative style which became a model...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198154607
• ISBN13: 9780198154600
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 4.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 10.6"