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Introduction to classical Chinese for students who are proficient in modern Chinese. Each of the twenty-two lessons focuses on a selection of related grammatical function words... and the syntactic structures defined by these words. These terms are introduced with clear, jargon-free explanations of their meaning and functions, followed by twenty to thirty example sentences from classical sources. Each illustrative example sentence is accompanied by a modern Chinese translation and thorough glosses of key function words and new vocabulary.