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Classical Chinese (Supplement 3): Selections from Historical Texts
Naiying Yuan
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Description for Classical Chinese (Supplement 3): Selections from Historical Texts
Paperback. Aims to instruct, inform, and inspire students of Chinese by presenting selected historical texts and their annotations. Taken from the seminal works known as the Four Histories, the fourteen included texts offer insights into the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of China over a long period of time. Series: The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CJBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 771.
Selections from Classical Chinese: Historical Texts aims to instruct, inform, and inspire students of Chinese by presenting selected historical texts and their annotations. Taken from the seminal works known as the Four Histories, the fourteen included texts offer insights into the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of China over a long period of time. The comprehensive annotations provide full pronunciation in pinyin, the grammatical function of individual words, and a full explication of the texts. One of the supplementary readings to Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader, this volume includes eight selections from the Shi Ji and two each from ... Read more
Selections from Classical Chinese: Historical Texts aims to instruct, inform, and inspire students of Chinese by presenting selected historical texts and their annotations. Taken from the seminal works known as the Four Histories, the fourteen included texts offer insights into the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of China over a long period of time. The comprehensive annotations provide full pronunciation in pinyin, the grammatical function of individual words, and a full explication of the texts. One of the supplementary readings to Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader, this volume includes eight selections from the Shi Ji and two each from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691118345
SKU
V9780691118345
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About Naiying Yuan
Naiying Yuan and Haitao Tang are Lecturers Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages, and in the Chinese Linguistics Project, at Princeton University. Tang is coauthor of "Chinese Primer", an introductory Chinese language textbook (Princeton). James Geiss, who earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979, was a Ming scholar and worked for many years as research associate, editor, ... Read more
Reviews for Classical Chinese (Supplement 3): Selections from Historical Texts
"The present handbook provides a very interesting compilation of historical fragments, and a practical teaching tool. It offers a useful basis for a class discussion on the language and culture of Early China"
Ann Heirman, Linguistics
Ann Heirman, Linguistics