Ancient Chinese (Volume 1)

Author: Yi Guojie
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Publish Date: 2000-07-18
Features: This book is one of the series textbooks for the Chinese Language and Literature Education program at teacher's colleges, compiled by the National Teacher's College Higher Vocational College Liberal Arts Textbook Compilation Committee. This series of textbooks meets the needs of the reform of teaching content and curriculum systems in teacher's colleges in the 21st century, incorporating many new achievements from academia and the teaching experience of frontline teachers. The writing aim is to ensure scientificity, practicality, and contemporaneity, and it has strong characteristics of teacher's colleges. The book is divided into two volumes. The first volume covers the general theory of ancient Chinese, with chapters on characters, vocabulary, grammar, rhetoric, phonology, and other knowledge of ancient Chinese, as well as common knowledge of ancient culture. The features of this book are: at the end of each chapter, a special section is set to explain the application of the chapter's knowledge in the teaching of classical Chinese in secondary schools; at the end of this volume, a special chapter is set to discuss the comprehensive application of ancient Chinese; grammar is downplayed, focusing only on the main grammatical phenomena that differ from modern Chinese grammar; the classical Chinese examples cited in the text are basically from secondary school Chinese textbooks and the "Selected Readings" in the second volume of this book. After each section, "Thinking and Exercises" are provided to facilitate the assessment of learning outcomes.