Classical Chinese Made Easy: Learning Ancient Chinese Through Idioms

Author: Zhao Suosheng
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book first discusses the characteristics of Chinese characters and the basic concepts of variant characters, traditional characters, simplified characters, and loan characters. It then explores the single and double-syllable structures of Chinese, the active use of literary terms, and the usage of numerals and measure words. Finally, it delves into the syntactic features of classical Chinese. The book provides a detailed analysis of the meanings of over 1,000 commonly used classical Chinese words.