William Dolby

This work is a textbook, one that Bill used and finely honed during his years as a lecturer. It comes with classical Chinese texts, romanisation’s, full vocabulary, comments, translations and introduction by William Dolby. This work represents the 15th of 33 of the Chinese Culture Series.

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For thousands of years, a language designated Classical Chinese has been used in China, and it has been employed in other countries of the Far East. It continues to play an important role in modern China. One cannot truly be master of modern Chinese without a knowledge of the ancient language.

A huge store of exciting, highly informative, and as yet in many ways unexplored, literature has been written in Classical Chinese, and the present textbook aims to help towards accessing this wonderful language, in an enjoyable way, so that understanding of vocabulary and grammar, and insights into key ideas and other aspects of Chinese civilisation, are simultaneously acquired.

The book is determined to make things as easy as possible for the learner, and so provides every piece and poem with full Chinese character-text, full vocabulary, full Romanisation, and a suggested translation. In addition the Glossary is a full-dictionary, provided for ease of general reference. This is the first ever textbook in this form, and has been applied in university teaching for many years with great success.

1. Kuan Han-Ch'ing: China's first Playwright
2. Bring on the Wine and other Poems by Li Pai
3. Chinese Poetry Through The Ages: an Anthology
4. Chinese Short Stories - Spanning 2000 Years
5. History of early Chinese Ch'ü-aria Poetry
6. Sayings of Confucius and his Students
7. Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems
8. Wang Shi-Fu, Author of China's Most Famous Play
9. West Wing Chantefable by Tung Chieh-yüan
10. Sir Old, the Chinese Classic of Taoism
11. Peking Opera
12. Yüan Dynasty Variety Plays
13. Mr Ma and son in London
14. Songs Classic: China’s earliest poetry anthology
15. Classical Chinese textbook
16. Three Hundred T'ang Dynasty Poems
17. Yüan Dynasty Variety Play dramas: 100 stories
18. Chinese Folk-tales
19. Chinese Humour: an Anthology
20. Gold-producing Mansion
21. Chinese Riddles
22. Chinese Elliptical Idioms (hsieh-hou-yu)
23. West Wing, China's most famous drama
24. Washing Silk, a drama by Liang Ch'en-yi (1520-ca.1580)
25. Chinee Drama Poems
26. Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
27. Chinese Myths
28. Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
29. Lasting-life Palace-hall by Hung Sheng (1654-1704)
30. Chinese non-drama aria-poems, an anthology (VOLUME ONE)
31. Chinese Poetry Through the Ages
32. Dictionary of Chinese Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings
33. Anthology of Chinese non-drama aria-poems (VOLUME TWO)