دانلود کتاب Language of the Dragon. Classical Chinese Reader

Language of the Dragon: A Classical Chinese Reader is for students who have completed the equivalent of three years of modem Chinese and who wish to develop a richer and more subtle vocabulary. It is designed to help students discuss academic and scholarly topics more articulately and to read classical materials with greater ease. This book will enable students to:
-learn frequently used function words and understand their uses,
-gain control of grammatical structures essential for the reading of simple classical Chinese texts,
-acquire basic knowledge of reference works helpful in studying classical Chinese (i.e., where to find answers to questions),
-increase proficiency in modem Chinese while studying classical Chinese,
・ develop the ability to discuss and analyze the cultural and historical content of their reading, and
-reinforce syntactic and semantic knowledge through many carefully designed exercises.
This book offers a new approach to the traditional written language of China, emphasizing its grammatical difference from modern Chinese and highlighting the interaction between wenyan and baihua. Since the text uses baihua to teach wenyan, it has a wide variety of applications. In addition, the wenyan examples are translated into baihua so that the book also may be used for self-study. While Language of the Dragon can be used in classes in which English is the language of instruction, it is in fact designed for classes in which modem Chinese is used to teach classical Chinese.