Chinese-English Correspondence: Exquisite Mongolian Education Collection. Volume 2

Author: Guo Zhang
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book aims to draw from the best and select the finest, with a refreshing format, making it a pioneer among similar books both domestically and internationally. This is not only reflected in the new English translations for each piece but also in its innovative layout and comprehensive yet focused content. Each of the 10 readers in the book has its own systematic arrangement, including five components: the original text, the English translation, the modern translation, brief annotations, and introductions. The selection of the original texts is completed based on collation, ensuring that each included piece comes from a relatively reliable and authoritative version. The author has numbered the meaning units in each original text, allowing each numbered line to be used independently, making it easier for readers to compare the English translation, modern translation, and original text with the same number. The modern translation, as the name suggests, refers to translating the classical original text into modern colloquial bilingual form, sentence by sentence or line by line, to help readers understand the original work. The brief annotations provide concise explanations for the difficulties in the original text, including the pronunciation of difficult or easily misspelled characters. The introductions and brief reviews () introduce relevant knowledge about the original work, comment on its ideological content, and especially critique its flaws to prevent readers from being misled and to avoid the spread of misinformation. The book includes 10 readers, two of which are in the form of poetry and ci, namely "The Poems of a Gifted Child" () with 34 poems and "Essential Sayings for Awakening the World" () with 31 poems. This book combines the value of reading, appreciation, research, and collection, and also serves as a reference for comparative studies in Chinese-to-English and English-to-Chinese translation.