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# A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Why did I think this would be in SIMPLIFIED??
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2021*

I'm laughing at myself for assuming this has simplified characters. Imagine my surprise when I first opened this book and my brain tried to catch up going 'wait... how come some of these words don't look right?' LOLIn my defense, nowhere in the descriptions OR the title of the book gave any indication that it was only in traditional. Plus there were no previews for the inside of the book. Please Amazon, you are worth billions, make it happen, I know you can do it, I believe in you.Now I'm just sitting here not knowing whether to laugh or cry at the irony of debating whether the more significant hurtle to understanding this book is first 'translating' into simplified or 'translating' classical Chinese to modern. Truthfully, it probably wouldn't be extremely difficult to figure out what the simplified equivalents are. But if I'm going to be totally honest with myself here, I'm just too lazy to try to learn another set of characters and I don't want to memorize more stuff.Otherwise, this actually looks to be a fairly informative book... but I can't really say for sure because I can't read half of the sample text so I didn't finish before my brain turned off! Maybe I'll reattempt later when it reboots.If you know traditional or are a new learner of Chinese this may work better for you as it does seem to build slowly. It also provides interesting context and cultural notes. For example there was a blurb on traditional calendar dating system which was neat. I'll probably keep the book just for these.If you already have a half-decent foundation in modern Mandarin and a simplified bias, I find Classical Chinese A Functional Approach by Kai Li and James Erwin Dew to be a more direct approach. It gets straight to the point by providing lots of examples/explanations in order to build a more intuitive understanding. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/088727630X/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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    Definitely not perfect, but well thought of...
  

*by H***T on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2010*

So I purchased this book based on the 100% 5-stars ratings from the past 8 customers. I feel a little tricked. Nothing is perfect and I should of known. There are definitely more cons than pros, but overall a good buy. It may not be a good book for someone learning on their own. Definitely a good classroom discussion based product.Pro: 1) I liked how the primer has great choices on ancient texts. The variety of texts in which the author picked was well suited for beginners learning literacy chinese. 2) Glad it has the plus 1400 vocab that a beginner can learn. The back of the book is a great reference tool with the radicals/strokes/dictionary.Cons: 1) All these little numbers in parenthesis after the vocabs can get confusing after awhile. Also, references back to certain pages or chapters can be confusing. what does this mean? See 2.7 for more information. what is 2.7 again? 2) Practice Exercises are great, but where are the solutions. I would like to know the answers to see if what I wrote was correct or not. 3) What are the original meanings of the ancient text/proverbs/stories? I find myself guessing what the sentence/paragraph means. 4) Maybe should of included an analects or text from Confucius. Kinda bummed there wasn't one. 5) Didn't like flipping back and forth to check on the ancient text and vocabulary, especially if the new vocab is towards the end of the lesson. Just seems tedious to do so. Example: first chapter. 3 proverbs could have been separated on its own pages with the new vocab underneath it with modern translations. Then lessons and explanations can follow. 5) Needs more visuals - like more bolded headlines or a better way to section off lessons. It just looks very dry to read.

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    Best Classical Chinese primer
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2021*

I own the Pulleyblank in addition to this Rouzer edition. The Pulleyblank, has for many years, been at the forefront for learning grammar in classical literature. That said, it pales in comparison to the Rouzer book.Why get the Rouzer book? Unlike prior attempts, this book is designed to slowly build skills with each successive chapter. In other words, this book is really designed to teach.The Rouzer also come with difficult but intuitive practice problems (classical-english, english to classical)! There are also many reference sections for using it as a translation book.Highly recommend

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