Classical Chinese

This book is compiled for overseas students who are just beginning to study classical Chinese. There are 20 lessons altogether in this book, all of which were selected from the most classical works from the Pre-Qin to Ming and Qing dynasties.

This classical Chinese reading book consists of 45 lessons, recommend 4 hours/week to use in one semester. Simplified Chinese edition.

This is Volume 2 of Jump High - Gudai Hanyu, in simplified Chinese only, vocabulary notes are introduced with Hanyu Pinyin. Volume 2 consists of 15 lessons and is suitable for sinology students who are completing their first semester of their third academic year in China. Each lesson comes with 1-2 texts to be taught in 2-4 class hours. Having finished this volume, students will become more interested in classical Chinese and, more importantly, be able to understand classical Chinese and ancient Chinese culture from a deeper perspective.

Jump High - Reading Idioms is an elective textbook for foreign senior undergraduates majoring in Chinese language and literature in China. It can also be used as a textbook for senior foreign graduates of Chinese major. 180 idioms are analyzed and explained in detail in this book. When explaining the meanings of the idioms, this book provides the necessary pragmatic information to help students understand and use idioms correctly. Some idioms are provided with allusions (Classical Chinese text) and their translations in modern Chinese. Each idiom is provided with a certain number of example sentences to illustrate how idioms are used in real-life situations. Abundant exercises and a final test with answers are included, with a list of all idioms in the appendix. Recommended to use for of advanced Chinese learners.

This book collects the author’s 25 research papers already published over the recent years, encompassing the linguistic studies of the documents handed down from ancient times and the linguistic studies of documents on bamboo slips and silk. In the former part, the author discusses the differences between classic Chinese and modern Chinese in terms of word, morpheme, and structure, corrects people’s deviations in the understanding of the forms, pronunciations, and meanings of classic Chinese words, and let them be back the way they were. In the latter part, the author analyzes the research objects and stages of the documents on bamboo and silk, and explores some issues on Chinese vocabulary and characters in shuihudi jian and xibei jian.

For 300 years the Di Zi Gui (弟子 规) was the must-read book in Chinese families for the teaching of Confucianism to children. This version presents the classic text in both Chinese characters and Hanyu Pinyin, and maintains the classic three-character verse form. Furthermore, each section is followed by a modern Chinese and English translation as well as detailed explanations of the word structure, sentence structure and explanations of meanings.