Courses

Classical literary Chinese 1: Chinese characters (漢字 Hanzi) study

This course explores the followings;

• Evolution of Chinese characters

• How to write and read

• 214 Radicals and frequently used characters

Classical literary Chinese 2: literary Chinese (漢文 Hanwen) study

Students will learn basic grammar and syntactic structure of literary Chinese using primarily two Confucian classics, Great Learning (大學Da Xue) and Doctrine of Means (中庸Zhong Yong), as main texts, and supplementary excerpts of various other texts.

Classical texts (古典 Gudian) reading series 

We will read through Confucian classics, 4 books and 3 classics (四書三經) in a following sequence of how earlier East Asian scholars approached these text for the development of virtue as well as proficiency in overcoming the level of complexity in the earlier texts.

• Da Xue (大學): Great Learning

• Zhong Yong (中庸): Doctrine of Means

• Lun Yu (論語): Analects

• Meng Zi (孟子): Mencius

• Shi Jing (詩經): Classic of Poetry

• Shu Jing (書經): Classic of History

• Yi Jing (易經): Classic of Change