Contents
Preface ix
Introduction
Part 1. Problems of Reading and
Understanding 1
Part 2. A Sketch of Literary Chinese 8
Part I: Texts to Introduce Basic Grammar
1. Nominal and Verbal Sentences: x _Ç (½x »y
)39
2. Parts of Speech: º °ê 'I H(Aú «D l) 47
3. Coordinate Verbs: Ýu rè «Y " (Aú «D l) 54
4. The Modifier cO and Nominalized Verbs: "è
Ýà "D ¼C
(f ó ¬K ¬î) 62
5. Negatives: ¥U ¬_ (Aú «D l) 71
6. Pivot Verbs, Auxiliary Verbs, and Classical
Commentary:
ú" ¥¬ (ÝC l) 79
7. Coverbs: ª° °ý ªê «A (_O °ê æÝ) 87
8. Embedded Sentences: U] -] (cs l) 94
Part II: Intermediate Texts
9. rE ¥- ½ °Y có rv Am (»¡ -b) 103
10."â AY 3D (ús Ç) 107
11.'¿ °- ñ_ H (_O °ê æÝ) 111
12.»_ Aý l °Y l °^ (»¡ -b) 114
13.»_ Aý l A| L d »ô (»¡ -b) 117
14. óO Aú (ýo l) 122
15.Ýý A có î (ýo l) 126
16.¥U °o (¥v °O) 130
17.rE l ñs (¥v °O) 134
18.d y ñy ¥ï _d (»¡ -b) 138
19.cM ó Az (Aú «D l) 141
20.¬I _ ¬F (cs l) 144
21.Åê Å\ (ýo l) 149
22.º
°ª _ª (¥v °O) 153
23.ºæ 'x (cs l) 157
24.ýE _ 1Ý (¥v °O) 162
Part III: Advanced Texts
25.cs l ¿ï 175
26.ýo l ¿ï 188
27.¥q °" _E: B Ýi ÝC Ç (¥v °O) 203
28.y ¿ª : Äo «F ° Ç 213
29.33 ¼ç ,Ö å ¿ï 218
Part IV: -d º å ¿ï
Selected T ng and Sòng Dynasty Writings
30.3_ ¥E _ : Aö »î °O 229
31.ù "j : ,Ö ¿ï 231
32.Aú úU : -ì 1D 238
33.¼U -x : å ¿ï 243
34.Ĭ ,y : å ¿ï 246
35.Ý ¿Q : ñe 31 ¥y Ç 252
Appendixes
A. Issues in the Linguistic Aspects of
Literary Chinese 257
1. Topic and Subject in Literary
Chinese 257
2. Syntax and Phonology in Archaic
Chinese 260
3. Complements 264
B. Dynastic Timeline, Maps, and Measures 273
C. Romanizations and Radicals 281
D. Glossary of Function Words 292
Index 335