How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese - A Course in Classical Chinese

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.

List of contents

Preface to the How to Read Chinese Literature Series
A Note on How to Use This Book
Symbols, Abbreviations, and Typographical Usages
Contributors Who Have Written Literary Analyses for This Book
Historical Writings
Recorded Conversations
Allegorical Tales and Argumentative Essays
Biographical Writings
Letters
Prefaces and Occasional Writings
Expository Essays
Accounts of Sites and Events
Essentials of Classical Chinese Grammar Taught
Answers to Unit Exercises

About the author

Jie Cui, Liu Yucai, and Zong-qi Cai

Summary

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.

Additional text

This is the first volume available on the U.S. market to introduce comprehensively and systematically all of the major genres of classical Chinese prose in the form of a classical Chinese textbook taught through modern Mandarin Chinese. Teachers and students will benefit from its broad coverage, flexibility for course use, and its useful glossary-index.

Product details

• Authors: Zong-Qi Cui Cai
• Assisted by: Zong-Qi Cai (Editor), Cai Zong-qi (Editor), Jie Cui (Editor), Cui Jie (Editor), Liu Yucai (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780231202930
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20293-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: How to Read Chinese Literature
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Language readers, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, foreign language study; Chinese