Literary Chinese Research Articles

What Is the Dai Nihon Shi?

It has often been claimed that the Dai Nihon shi is one of the towering monuments of traditional Japanese historiography, and it is indeed a work of rare scope: a general history of Japan in 397 kan, or chapters, dealing primarily with the affairs of the imperial dynasty from its legendary founding in 660 B.C. to the healing of Japan's only extended dynastic schism in 1392. The entire text is in literary Chinese, and the pattern of organization is that of the Chinese dynastic histories. The Dai Nihon shi was conceived by Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628–1701), the second daimyo of the Mito han, and compiled by the Confucian retainers of Mitsukuni and his successors. Two large sections of chronological Main Annals and Biographies (approximately half of the finished book) were completed by 1715, but the rest remained unfinished at the time of the Meiji Restoration.

Observations On A New Classical Chinese Grammar

It is a surprising fact that the Chinesische Grammatik (1881) of G. v.d. Gabelentz remains the only grammar of Classical Chinese widely available in a Western language. Joseph L. M. Mullie's Grondbeginselen van de Chinese letterkundige taal is accessible only to those who read Flemish, and the Structural analysis of literary Chinese of H. E. Shadick and Hsin-min Wu has not yet appeared in printed form. The publication of this grammatical analysis of LAC (Late Archaic Chinese) by Professor Dobson, Head of the Department of East Asiatic Studies at Toronto, is therefore an event of great importance to sinologists and to linguists generally. Its object is to establish, on a purely formal basis, the grammar of the literary language of the fourth and third centuries B.C. For descriptive purposes this period is taken as a unity, ignoring the peculiarities of particular texts and the dialects which may underlie them. It excludes, not only the Early Archaic of the ‘Songs’ and ‘History’, but the Middle Archaic of the ‘Spring and autumn annals’ and the early ‘Analects’. Professor Dobson seeks to liberate the grammar of LAC from all the Western categories so far imposed on it (parts of speech, subject/predicate, subject/object, case, tense) and to establish, with the aid of a new and often alarming terminology, new categories distinguished by purely formal criteria.

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Volume III: The Mencius, Books I-III.

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Volume III: The Mencius, Books I-III.

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume III, the Mencius, Books I-III

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume III, the Mencius, Books I-III

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume III: The Mencius, Books I-III

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume III: The Mencius, Books I-III

Structural Analysis of Literary Chinese.

Structural Analysis of Literary Chinese.

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. 1, The Hsiao Ching

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. 1, The Hsiao Ching

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Vol.I

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Vol.I

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. II

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. II

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Vol. I

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method. Vol. I

Literary Chinese: Vol. I, the Hsiao Ching

Literary Chinese: Vol. I, the Hsiao Ching

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method.. Volume I. The Hsiao Ching. Prepared by Herrlee Glessner Creel (Editor), Chan Tsung-Ch‘ien, and Richard C. Rudolph, pp. xiii, 188. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1938. 13s. 6d.

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method.. Volume I. The Hsiao Ching. Prepared by Herrlee Glessner Creel (Editor), Chan Tsung-Ch‘ien, and Richard C. Rudolph, pp. xiii, 188. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1938. 13<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. I, the Hsiao Ching, Prepared by H. G. Creel, Chang Tsung-Ch'ien and Richard C. Rudolph

"Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. I, the Hsiao Ching, Prepared by H. G. Creel, Chang Tsung-Ch'ien and Richard C. Rudolph." Parnassus, 11(1), p. 43

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. I, The Hsiao Ching

Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Vol. I, The Hsiao Ching

Introduction to Literary Chinese

Introduction to Literary Chinese

Introduction to Literary Chinese.

Introduction to Literary Chinese.