A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese

by Paul Rouzer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067402270X
• ISBN13: 9780674022706
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"