Chinese-English Contrastive Classics of Mongolian Education (Third Volume) (Third Volume)

Author: Guo Zhang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book aims to gather the best and innovate in form, 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 novel layout and comprehensive yet focused content. Each of the 10 reading materials in the book has its own systematic arrangement, including five components: the original text, English translation, modern translation, brief annotations, and introductions. The selection of the original texts is completed based on collation, ensuring that each included text comes from a relatively reliable and authoritative version. The author has numbered the meaning units in the original texts, allowing each numbered item to be used independently, making it convenient 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 item by item, helping readers understand the original work. The brief annotations provide concise explanations for difficult points in the original text, including phonetic annotations for difficult or easily misread characters. The introductions and brief reviews () introduce relevant knowledge about the original work, comment on its ideological content, especially criticizing its flaws to prevent misleading readers and the spread of misinformation. The book includes 10 reading materials, with two of them being poems and ci, namely "The Poems of a Gifted Child" () with 34 poems and "Essentials 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.