I think. I agree, though with the caveat that your advantage will be limited mostly to the realm of writing coming from Taiwan and the older generations of the Chinese diaspora. I think you simply cannot underestimate how debased the literary calibre of writing in mainland China has become under Communist rule and especially following the Cultural Revolution.
But when I get a contract or news article or descriptive piece of writing from Taiwan, look out! I think it may depend on what kind of simplified material you are working on. After all, there is so much of it.
As you will see if you click through the link, there is far more on offer than just the Guwenguanzhi. Please note that the scholarly apparatus that supports them is generally very conservative and is far from reflecting the state of the art. This is especially true of pre-Qin works. Nonetheless, these are an great resource. There is another, newer series that was even more extensive distributed I think by Jianhong Books on Chongqing S.
This one was even better and made a good attempt to use some of the more modern scholarship. If your worried about what sort of classical Chinese that Taiwanese writers would actually incorporate into their writing than you will find this book the most useful and practical. However, if you are worried about the politics of a certain teacher, then I suppose you could go with buying 10 books instead of 1 like feiren has suggested.
And why would Taiwanese students have to study the guwenguanzhi for their entrance exams? Gudai hanyu is a series of four or six volumes depending on which edition you use. My information is coming from actual Taiwanese students that say that material from this book is, in fact, tested. Asking someone to choose one of six volumes is not really giving them advice. Here pick a book. No matter it is history or poetry or any other genre of writing, Classical Chinese is a beautiful language to read.
It is unfair to say that one language is more beautiful than another, but more than two thousand years of practice has allowed so many more great works to be produced in Classical Chinese than in the young Modern Chinese. When you are traveling in China or wandering around in museums, have you ever seen inscriptions in Classical Chinese that even your Chinese friends have difficulties deciphering? Well, these instances coiuld now be a great chance to show off your Classical Chinese skills and impress them!
And even if you are not a traveler, quoting a sentence from Chinese classics and using some ancient idioms would still be pretty cool!
Your email address will not be published. The 12 Days of Chengyu by Amanda Ong. Post Pagination Next Post Next. Well, here are a number of reasons why you should still learn Classical Chinese. T hus, most words have their roots in Classical Chinese, and the ability to understand Classical Chinese allows you better comprehension of modern Chinese words.
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For example, Mandarin and English are very remote. The phonology and grammar are quite different and the writing systems are totally different. I am a native speaker of English, yet I have acquired some proficiency in Mandarin, which is far remoter from my mother tongue than, say, French. Yet the French language is much less intelligible to me than Mandarin, and when I hear people speaking French I often cannot even tell where words begin and end, whereas I do not have this difficulty with Mandarin and other Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Taiwanese.
Hence, Chinese languages, even those which I cannot speak and do not understand, [4] are clearer to me than a language more closely related to my native English. I surmise several things about the classical Chinese on the chopstick packet.
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