Free Classical Chinese Textbook

The sinologist Dr. Donald Wagner has provided on his site a free textbook for Classical Chinese studies. It is a reader with vocabulary and extensive notes. I would say the textbook is for advanced students who already have a basic grasp of the classical particles and syntax. I think the most challenging part of this text in particular is understanding all the formal titles. Fortunately in this reader these are all noted in the glossary. I went through this text and found it quite rewarding and interesting. The subject matter deals with the Han account of barbarians. There is even brief mention of Japan.


A Classical Chinese Reader: The 'Memoir on the Eastern Barbarians' in Hou Han shu, with notes and glosses for students of Chinese and Korean

http://donwagner.dk
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 9, 2013 at 5:13 AM

    Broken links

    Hello -

    You have one or more links to staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner
    for example here:
    http://wenyanwen.blogspot.dk/2011/06/free-classical-chinese-textbook.html

    These should be changed to
    http://donwagner.dk

    Regards
    Donald B. Wagner

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  2. Jeffrey KotykJuly 9, 2013 at 5:24 AM

    Dr. Wagner,

    Updated! Thanks for the note!

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