Which books do Chinese use to learn Classical Chinese?
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atitarev -
"Brighter Readings in Classical Chinese" by Zhong Qin (钟梫), "Everyday Chinese" (每日汉语)
series. Like other Zhong Qin's books, it's out of print but still available.
It features - Chinese, Pinyin, detailed vocabulary and English translation.
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wangleen -
Have you found the book轻松学习文言文?It can be bought on www.dangdang.com
Actually, it was written by my father
And recently, he has published another book which you might find
useful:中国高中生必读文言文， following are the books he has written and can be bought
on dangdang:
http://search.dangdang.com/search.as...key5=&catalog=
Hope it can make your study much easier!
gato -
Quote:
Have you found the book轻松学习文言文?It can be bought on www.dangdang.com
Actually, it was written by my father
Wow, tell your dad that I love his book, and that you should write another one using the same
format, but with more classical Chinese essays that are not in textbooks. See here for some
examples:
http://search.dangdang.com/search.as...key5=&catalog=
高中课外文言文精讲精练
高中卷-课外文言文导读与精练
中考文言文课外阅读训练100篇
Or maybe a version of 《古文观止》 using the same format as 《轻松学习文言文》, but
that would be a huge project. Maybe you can work with your dad. Haha.
wangleen -
Thank you for your appraisal! Do you think it is necessary to have pingying for the words?
gato -
You can add pinyin just for the more obscure characters. Are you really thinking about it?
wushijiao -
Another book that I would recommend: Classical Chinese Primer: 古文入门 by John C.Y. Wang,
Sue-mei Wu, Shaoyu Jiang, Frank F.S. Hsueh. The Chinese University Press.
Advantages of this book:
1) Good selection of passages, as far as usefulness to the CSL learner, intrinsic content
interest, brevity, and accessibility.
2) Clear grammatical explanations. I find that this is important because I often feel that I'm 90%
sure of the meaning of a word/character or grammatical point. But that 10% unknown part can be
very crucial, and easily-overlooked.
3) The English in the book is very good (not Chinglish-y).
4) They use traditional characters. Although, the back of the book has an additional appendix with
all of the book's passages in simplified. So, if you are used to simplified, you can probably get
by using this book by just looking at the back.
5) The book design and presentation is pretty good.
6) You can buy a workbook that comes with it. I have found, so far, that I end up understanding
the passage/grammar much better after doing the relatively simple exercises that come along in the
workbook.
The main downside of the book is that it is fairly expensive at 240 HKD, with another 90 for the
workbook.
Another book that I bought (and will hopefully start and finish sometime next year) is
中國歷史文選 by 張衍田, 北京大學出版社. That book compiles selections from Chinese
history, with pretty interesting forwards to the passages and good annotations. The main advantage
of the book, compared to others on the Mainland, is that it is written in traditional characters
and is written vertically, from right to left. That doesn’t seem like much of a big deal,
really. But I read in the book’s introduction:
“北大歷史系1987年招收碩士研究生的古代漢語考題，有一題是要考生用繁體
字獻寫一段自選的百字古文，結果，沒有一個考生得滿分，有的考卷此題竟�
��一片空白”。That’s obviously an extreme example. However, if you ever want to read
authentic original documents, understand what inscriptions say in temples and museums, (or just
read books from HK and Taiwan), then it seems to me that is important to learn to read things the
way they were originally presented.
So, this is book should be good in the sense that it fulfills the above requirements and can be
bought in the Mainland.
http://product.dangdang.com/product....uct_id=8742591
calibre2001 -
Interesting thread here-> http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/ind...howtopic=16608
20th century classical chinese apparently.
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