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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
Contents
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 相 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: 公 gōng, 子 zǐ, and 王 wáng
2.3.2. Verbal Sentences
2.3.3. The Preposition 於 yú
2.3.4. The Adverb 對 duì
2.3.5. Nouns as Stative Verbs
2.3.6. Verbal Negation with 不 bù
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: 姓 xìng and 名 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 者 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 字 zì
4.3.2. Some Pronouns: 汝 rǔ, 之 zhī, and 是 shì
4.3.3. Forming Questions with 乎 hū
4.3.4. Equational Verb 為 wéi
4.3.5. Reflexive Pronoun 自 zì
4.4. Supplements
4.4.1. Modern Chinese Comparison: 是 shì
4.4.2. Two Phonetic Loans: 女 nǚ and 汝 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 哉 zāi
5.3.2. The Adverb 信 xìn
5.3.3. Subordinating Expressions 如 rú and 雖 suī
5.3.4. Fusion Word 諸 zhū
5.3.5. Making Gerunds with 者 zhě
5.3.6. Transitive Verb 如 rú
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. 可 kě before a Transitive Verb
6.3.3. Stative Verbs as Adjectives
6.3.4. Negating Nominal Sentences with 非 fēi
6.3.5. Unmarked Subordination
6.3.6. Subordination with 之 zhī
6.3.7. Coverbal 以 yǐ49
6.3.8. Pronoun 其 qí
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 而 ér and 與 yǔ
7.3.3. The Expression 以為 yǐwéi
7.3.4. The Reflexive Pronoun 己 jǐ
7.3.5. The Emphatic Particle 亦 yì and 不亦⋯⋯乎 bú yì...hū
7.3.6. Converting Verbs into Nominal Expressions with 所 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: 也 yě and 乎 hū
8.3.2. Sentence-Final Interrogative 與 yú
8.3.3. Stative Verb 非 fēi
8.3.4. Preposing an Object with 以 yǐ
8.3.5. Modal 其 qí and 其!⋯⋯乎 qí . . . hū
8.3.6. Negative Imperative 勿 wù
8.3.7. Interrogative Pronoun 何 hé
8.3.8. Modal Particle 矣 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. 者 zhě as Topic Marker
9.3.3. Dropping Final 也 yě
9.3.4. 則 zé as Contrastive Topic Marker
9.3.5. The Expression 學者有⋯⋯ xuézhě yǒu . . .
9.3.6. 得 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 也 yě
10.3.6. Embedded Quotations with 云 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 然 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 今 jīn
12.3.2. Coverb 將 jiāng
12.3.3. The Documents 書 Shū
12.4. Supplements
12.4.1. Author and Philosophy
12.4.2. The Controversy over 端 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 與 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 喻 yù
13.4.3. On 物化 wù huà
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