Confucius's Analects
 312 pp., 7 x 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781589016354 (1589016351) June 2010 LC: 2009024527 EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Preface User's Guide Confucius's Analects Audio Listening Material (click here to download) Reviews |
Confucius's Analects
An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Culture
Confucius's Analects is an innovative textbook for teaching and learning Chinese language and culture at the advanced level. It combines classical and modern Chinese language skills, Chinese culture, and expository and narrative writing practice. Zu-yan Chen is a professor of Chinese language and literature and director of the Confucius Institute at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the co-author of Li Bai and Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature and Chinese through Song.
Reviews
"Confucius's Analects is an excellent textbook that fills a critical gap. It is culturally rich, and provides a useful approach to teaching Chinese with the combination of modern and classical Chinese. The book also provides a creative stance at utilizing classical Chinese, historical idioms, and ways to expand vocabulary."—Kai Li, East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College "As students start Chinese learning earlier than in previous decades, many of them reach the advanced level half way through their college years if not sooner. An efficient textbook is needed for them to not only enhance their linguistic competence but also to probe into the Chinese intellectual tradition and cultural values to prepare them to be sophisticated communicators in the language. Zu-yan Chen's Confucius's Analects is tailor-made to meet this need. Adopting entries from the influential classic, (Lúny ), as its main text, this book is also supplemented by essays written in modern Chinese language on relevant topics to further elucidate the significance of the main text. Furthermore, the author uses both sets of texts to systematically introduce Chinese idioms, which were derived from traditional Chinese wisdom but widely used in modern Chinese language. The materials are well organized and precisely glossed. Most remarkable are the clearly guided exercises—including making use of the learned words and idioms, answer questions, writing compositions of expository and narrative essays, debate, web research and storytelling—that are astutely arranged to challenge students' active mental participation and cogent articulation. For an advanced Chinese language class, this is the textbook of my choice."—Madeline Chu, professor of Chinese language & literature, Kalamazoo College Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments User's Guide Part One: Knowledge 1. Learning the Way Porridge Cakes 2. Love for Learning Lamp of Fireflies 3. The Four Prohibitions A Doctor-Traveler 4. Inferring by Analogy Tones of the Zither 5. The Ultimate Joy The Plum Blossom Painter Part Two: Morality 6. Filial Piety Grandma and the Office 7. Righteousness and Profit The Promissory Notes 8. Three Introspections Daily Critics of an Emperor 9. Strength in Adversity A Determined Historian 10. The Long Journey Death of a Premier Part Three: Wisdom 11. Self-Reliance The Taste of Gall 12. Three Beneficial Friends The Slashed Mat 13. Words and Deeds Talking in a Big Game 14. Advancing and Retreating World and Island 15. Careers for Scholars A Statesman of Four Reigns Part Four: Governance 16. Governing with Virtue A Palace without a Terrace 17. Sovereigns and Subjects Three Visits to a Strategist 18. Exemplary Leaders The Flying General 19. The Upright above the Crooked A Tattooed General 20. Economy and Education The Emperor's Dictionary Appendix English Translation of the Analects Passages Indexes |
