Download or read book A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese written by Paul F. Rouzer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook contains 40 lessons designed to introduce the beginning student to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese. The lessons are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts (Shuo yuan, Shiji, Mencius, Zhuangzi, and Lienu zhuan) selected to give students a thorough grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate some of the changes in written Chinese over the centuries.