Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics is a textbook to teach those who wish to achieve an advanced or native proficiency and cultural competence in modern Chinese, as well as to experience the beauty of Classical Chinese literature.
Collecting representative works containing vibrant views of Chinese culture from different dynasties, this book is focused on how the grammatical patterns, vocabulary, and idioms that are found in Classical Chinese are relevant in the modern adaptation of the language, and how the accumulated traditional values and beliefs found there still shape the thinking and lifestyle of modern society.
Online resources including audio, answer keys, and instructor aids will be part of the teaching package.
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Shu-Ling Wu is Assistant Professor of Chinese and the Head of the Chinese Program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.
Haiwang Yuan is Professor of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, USA.
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Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics is a textbook to teach those who wish to achieve an advanced or native proficiency and cultural competence in modern Chinese, as well as to experience the beauty of Classical Chinese literature.
Collecting representative works containing vibrant views of Chinese culture from different dynasties, this book is focused on how the grammatical patterns, vocabulary, and idioms that are found in Classical Chinese are relevant in the modern adaptation of the language, and how the accumulated traditional values and beliefs found there still shape the thinking and lifestyle of modern society.
Online resources including audio, answer keys, and instructor aids will be part of the teaching package.
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Users' Guides« »
Dynastic Timeline and Authors
Lesson 1 The Classic of Poetry: Guan Ju « · »
Lesson 2 Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius: Part I « » ( )
Lesson 3 Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius: Part II « » ( )
Lesson 4 Excerpts from Mencius « »
Lesson 5 Excerpts from Laozi's Dào Dé Jing « »
Lesson 6 Excerpts from Zhuangzi « »
Lesson 7 The Collection of Yuèfu Poetry: The Ballad of Mùlán« · »
Lesson 8 The Biography of Mr. Wuliu by Táo Yuanmíng « »
Lesson 9 Three Poems by Wáng Wéi
Lesson 10 Drink More by Li Bái « »
Lesson 11 Two Poems by Dù Fu
Lesson 12 Cí Poetry by Li Yù and Li Qingzhào
Lesson 13 On the Love of the Lotus by Zhou Dunyí « »
Lesson 14 Remembering the Red Cliffs by Su Shì « · »
Lesson 15 Defying Age by Guan Hànqing « · »
Lesson 16 Viewing Snow in a Pavilion on the West Lake by Zhang Dài
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List of Sources and Works Consulted
Vocabulary and Grammar Points Index