Selections from Classical Chinese Short Stories

Author: Lan Xiaoling
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book selects ancient short passages, including stories, notes, travelogues, essays, fu poetry, prefaces, letters, and official documents. They either narrate stories or comment on the past and present, or express emotions and convey philosophical ideas. With a wide range of topics and rich content, they possess high ideological and artistic value, integrating knowledge, interest, and accessibility, making them suitable for readers with intermediate to advanced levels. Due to their short length, they are convenient for readers to study ancient Chinese language knowledge and conduct targeted exercises (such as classical translation), effectively and quickly, avoiding fatigue. Although short in length, they have a large capacity, allowing readers to learn about ancient Chinese culture, folklore, art, economy, governance, personalities, and nature. The book provides concise and popular annotations for some words, phrases, sentences, and related names, places, events, and allusions in the selected passages, mostly using direct explanations and translations to facilitate understanding. Some more difficult passages are also translated. Additionally, brief introductions and comments are given on the authors' backgrounds, the interpretation of the content, writing methods, and linguistic features. It is hoped that readers will gain something from different perspectives while reading and appreciating the book.