Late Han Chinese: A Study of the Archaic-Han Shift (Heritage) - Softcover

Dobson, W.A.C.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442631171 ISBN 13: 9781442631175

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing, 1964

Synopsis

This book continues and carries a stage further Professor Dobson's pioneering researches into the nature and development of Classical Chinese. He has here compared a Late Archaic text with a paraphrase of that text written in Late Han Chinese.

About this title

About the Author:

W.A.C.H. Dobson (1913-1982) was a professor of Chinese and Head of the Department of East Asiatic Studies at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a graduate in Oriental Studies from Oxford, of which university he was a Doctor of Letters. He wrote extensively on the Chinese language and is the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as a number of books: The Civilization of the Orient; Late Archaic Chinese: a Grammatical Study; Early Archaic Chinese: A Descriptive Grammar; Mencius: a New Translation Arranged and Annotated for the General Reader; Late Han Chinese: the Archaic-Han Shift; and The Language of the Book of Songs.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 1442631171
• ISBN 13: 9781442631175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164