Contents

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Preface

Introduction

1. The Five Types of Chinese Characters

2. Spoken Chinese

3. Dictionaries and Radicals

4. A Note on Japanese

5. Writing Chinese Characters

6. Introducing the Lessons

7. Abbreviations for Grammatical Classes

1. Lesson 1

1.1. Reading: Analects 17.2

1.2. Vocabulary

1.3. Grammar Notes

1.3.1. Stative Verbs

1.3.2. Adverb xiāng

1.3.3. Nominal Sentences

1.3.4. Putting It All Together

1.4. Supplements

1.4.1. Philosophical Issues: Human Nature

1.4.2. Sino-Tibetan vs. Indo-European

2. Lesson 2

2.1. Reading: Analects 12.11 (Edited)

2.2. Vocabulary

2.3. Grammar Notes

2.3.1. Some Titles: gōng, zǐ, and wáng

2.3.2. Verbal Sentences

2.3.3. The Preposition

2.3.4. The Adverb duì

2.3.5. Nouns as Stative Verbs

2.3.6. Verbal Negation with

2.3.7. Implicit Mood

2.4. Supplement

2.4.1. Philosophical Issues: Role Ethics

3. Lesson 3

3.1. Readings: Analects 12.22, Analects 4.2, and Analects 6.23

3.2. Vocabulary

3.3. Grammar Notes

3.3.1. Chinese Names: xìng and míng

3.3.2. Transitive Verbs

3.3.3. Reading Pronunciations 讀音 dúyīn

3.3.4. Attributive Use of Nouns

3.3.5. Nominalizing with zhě

3.4. Supplements

3.4.1. Philosophical Issues: The Virtues of Wisdom and Benevolence

3.4.2. Commentaries and Traditional Tones

4. Lesson 4

4.1. Readings: Analects 2.17, Classic of the Way and Virtue 33

4.2. Vocabulary

4.3. Grammar Notes

4.3.1. More on Names: Styles

4.3.2. Some Pronouns: , zhī, and shì

4.3.3. Forming Questions with

4.3.4. Equational Verb wéi

4.3.5. Reflexive Pronoun

4.4. Supplements

4.4.1. Modern Chinese Comparison: shì

4.4.2. Two Phonetic Loans: nǚ and rǔ

5. Lesson 5

5.1. Readings: Analects 12.11, Analects 6.20

5.2. Vocabulary

5.3. Grammar Notes

5.3.1. Exclamatory Particle zāi

5.3.2. The Adverb xìn

5.3.3. Subordinating Expressions rú and suī

5.3.4. Fusion Word zhū

5.3.5. Making Gerunds with zhě

5.3.6. Transitive Verb

5.4. Supplement

5.4.1. Philosophical Issues: Knowing, Liking, and Delighting In

6. Lesson 6

6.1. Readings: Classic of the Way and Virtue 1, Analects 5.1

6.2. Vocabulary

6.3. Grammar Notes

6.3.1. Nouns as Causative Verbs

6.3.2. kě before a Transitive Verb

6.3.3. Stative Verbs as Adjectives

6.3.4. Negating Nominal Sentences with fēi

6.3.5. Unmarked Subordination

6.3.6. Subordination with zhī

6.3.7. Coverbal yǐ

6.3.8. Pronoun

6.4. Supplements

6.4.1. Textual Variants

6.4.2. Styles of Translation: Boodbergian vs. Drydenian

6.4.3. Alternative Translations of Classic of the Way and Virtue 1

7. Lesson 7

7.1. Readings: Analects 8.7, Analects 4.5

7.2. Vocabulary

7.3. Grammar Notes

7.3.1. Coverb 可以 kěyǐ

7.3.2. Conjunctions ér and yǔ

7.3.3. The Expression 以為 yǐwéi

7.3.4. The Reflexive Pronoun jǐ

7.3.5. The Emphatic Particle yì and 不亦⋯⋯ bú yì...hū

7.3.6. Converting Verbs into Nominal Expressions with suǒ

7.4. Supplements

7.4.1. The Sexagenary Cycle

7.4.2. Alternative Translations of Analects 4.5

8. Lesson 8

8.1. Readings: Analects 15.3, Analects 15.24, and Analects 4.15

8.2. Vocabulary

8.3. Grammar Notes

8.3.1. Two Vocative Particles: yě and

8.3.2. Sentence-Final Interrogative

8.3.3. Stative Verb fēi

8.3.4. Preposing an Object with yǐ

8.3.5. Modal qí and ⋯⋯ qí . . . 

8.3.6. Negative Imperative

8.3.7. Interrogative Pronoun

8.3.8. Modal Particle yǐ and the Expression 而已矣 ér yǐ yǐ

8.4. Supplements

8.4.1. Philosophy: The One Thread

8.4.2. Commentaries: Using 反切 fǎnqiè

8.4.3. A Grammatical Anomaly in 15.24?

9. Lesson 9

9.1. Readings: Analects 5.13 and the Commentary by Zhū Xī

9.2. Vocabulary

9.3. Grammar Notes

9.3.1. Nouns as Adjectives

9.3.2. zhě as Topic Marker

9.3.3. Dropping Final

9.3.4. zé as Contrastive Topic Marker

9.3.5. The Expression 學者有⋯⋯ xuézhě yǒu . . .

9.3.6. dé + Verb

9.4. Supplements

9.4.1. The Expression 罕言 hǎn yán

9.4.2. Zhū Xī and “Neo-Confucianism”

9.4.3. A More Prosaic Interpretation of Analects 5.13

10. Lesson 10

10.1. Reading: Zhuāngzǐ and Huìzǐ Debate by the River Hao

10.2. Vocabulary

10.3. Grammar Notes

10.3.1. Dictionary Practice

10.3.2. Some Common Radicals

10.3.3. Reduplicative Expressions

10.3.4. Coordination of Verbs without Conjunctions

10.3.5. More on Dropping

10.3.6. Embedded Quotations with yún

10.4. Supplement

10.4.1. Philosophy or Sophistry?

11. Lesson 11

11.1. Readings: Two Poems by Lǐ Bái: “Thoughts on a Still Night” and “Expressing My Feelings When Waking Up from Being Drunk on a Spring Day”

11.2. Vocabulary

11.3. Grammar Notes

11.3.1. Introducing 所以 suǒyǐ

11.3.2. Changing Stative Verbs to Adverbs with rán

11.3.3. Four Reminders

11.4. Supplements

11.4.1. Author and Style

11.4.2. On Beds

11.4.3. The Rest of “Expressing My Feelings When Waking Up from Being Drunk on a Spring Day”

12. Lesson 12

12.1. Reading: Mèngzǐ 2A6, 7B3 (Edited)

12.2. Vocabulary

12.3. Grammar Notes

12.3.1. Modal jīn

12.3.2. Coverb jiāng

12.3.3. The Documents Shū

12.4. Supplements

12.4.1. Author and Philosophy

12.4.2. The Controversy over duān

12.4.3. Which “Four Seas”?

12.4.4. Mèngzǐ’s Critics

13. Lesson 13

13.1. Reading: The Butterfly Dream from the Zhuāngzǐ

13.2. Vocabulary

13.3. Grammar Notes

13.3.1. Names Used in the First Person

13.3.2. The Many Senses of yǔ/yú

13.3.3. The Archaism 之謂 zhī wèi

13.4. Supplements

13.4.1. Philosophy: Skepticism or Monism?

13.4.2. Controversy over

13.4.3. On 物化 wù huà

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