Jie Cui is the coauthor of How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook (2012). Liu Yucai is professor of Chinese language and literature at the Center for Chinese Classical Texts at Peking University.Zong-qi Cai is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the general editor of the How to Read Chinese Literature series.

Learning classical Chinese can be daunting! Anyone aspiring to competency will benefit enormously by letting this group of leading scholars guide them word-by-word through key texts in the tradition. The readings, glosses, and notes all ease the burden on the learner.

• Preface to the How to Read Chinese Literature SeriesA Note on How to Use This BookSymbols, Abbreviations, and Typographical UsagesContributors Who Have Written Literary Analyses for This BookHistorical WritingsRecorded ConversationsAllegorical Tales and Argumentative EssaysBiographical WritingsLettersPrefaces and Occasional WritingsExpository EssaysAccounts of Sites and EventsEssentials of Classical Chinese Grammar TaughtAnswers to Unit Exercises

Jie Cui is the coauthor of How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook (2012). Liu Yucai is professor of Chinese language and literature at the Center for Chinese Classical Texts at Peking University.Zong-qi Cai is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the general editor of the How to Read Chinese Literature series.

Learning classical Chinese can be daunting! Anyone aspiring to competency will benefit enormously by letting this group of leading scholars guide them word-by-word through key texts in the tradition. The readings, glosses, and notes all ease the burden on the learner.

• Preface to the How to Read Chinese Literature SeriesA Note on How to Use This BookSymbols, Abbreviations, and Typographical UsagesContributors Who Have Written Literary Analyses for This BookHistorical WritingsRecorded ConversationsAllegorical Tales and Argumentative EssaysBiographical WritingsLettersPrefaces and Occasional WritingsExpository EssaysAccounts of Sites and EventsEssentials of Classical Chinese Grammar TaughtAnswers to Unit Exercises

Jie Cui is the coauthor of How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook (2012). Liu Yucai is professor of Chinese language and literature at the Center for Chinese Classical Texts at Peking University.Zong-qi Cai is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the general editor of the How to Read Chinese Literature series.

Learning classical Chinese can be daunting! Anyone aspiring to competency will benefit enormously by letting this group of leading scholars guide them word-by-word through key texts in the tradition. The readings, glosses, and notes all ease the burden on the learner.

• Preface to the How to Read Chinese Literature SeriesA Note on How to Use This BookSymbols, Abbreviations, and Typographical UsagesContributors Who Have Written Literary Analyses for This BookHistorical WritingsRecorded ConversationsAllegorical Tales and Argumentative EssaysBiographical WritingsLettersPrefaces and Occasional WritingsExpository EssaysAccounts of Sites and EventsEssentials of Classical Chinese Grammar TaughtAnswers to Unit Exercises