Ma Hanlin's Lectures on Ancient Chinese

Author: Ma Hanlin
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book is organized around important issues in classical Chinese grammar, divided into ten lessons. Each lesson includes both grammar and text. Examples and texts are mostly selected from ancient classics of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties. At the end of each lesson, there are supplementary exercises and grammar practice questions, which are clear in structure, highlight key points, and are easy to grasp. At the back of the book, there are four chapters on ancient cultural knowledge, rich in content. This book is a lecture notes on ancient Chinese language written by the author in the early 1960s, a work that reflects the author's dedication. This set of lecture notes pioneered a new approach to teaching ancient Chinese and established a grammar system for ancient Chinese. Most later textbooks on ancient Chinese have adopted or drawn inspiration from this system.