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This book offers students all the necessary tools to read, understand, and analyse Classical Chinese texts, including descriptions of syntactic features, introductions to historical and cultural topics, and selected readings from classical literature with original commentaries. It also provides an extensive glossary and up-to-date bibliography.
List of contents
- Preface
- 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
About the author
Kai Vogelsang is Professor of Sinology at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg. He has published widely on Chinese language, culture, and history. His most recent works include Geschichte Chinas [History of China] (5th edition; Reclam, 2018) and Shangjun shu: Schriften des Fürsten von Shang (Kröner Verlag, 2017).
Summary
This book offers students all the necessary tools to read, understand, and analyse Classical Chinese texts, including descriptions of syntactic features, introductions to historical and cultural topics, and selected readings from classical literature with original commentaries. It also provides an extensive glossary and up-to-date bibliography.
