Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. Classical Chinese: A
Basic Reader in Three Volumes (edition 2004) by Naiying Yuan
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Paperback) Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader is the most
comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language,
literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern
China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned
for years in classroom settings by three members of the Chinese
Linguistics Project at Princeton University, it sets a new
standard for the field. Volume 1 contains 40 selections from
texts written between the fifth century B.C. and the first
century A.D., during which the classical Chinese language was
fully developed and standardized. These passages, which express
key themes in Chinese humor, wit, wisdom, moral conviction, and
political ideals, are arranged in the order of complexity of the
grammatical patterns they exemplify. Unique