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Chinese Grammar Self Taught

by John Darroch
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121242592
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: INR 320.0
  • Language: English-Chinese
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 318 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

In this work, the author is intended to exhibit the structure of the Chinese language in terms of grammar familiar to western readers. He realizes that the Chinese scholars do not study their own language by these rules. The very names we use to designate the part of speech: nouns, verbs, adjective and adverb etc., were unknown in China until the influx of western learning. Nevertheless, the Chinese language was a polished instrument of speech ages before that date, and Chinese scholars were as learned and sometimes even as pedantic as the schoolmen of the middle ages. They moulded their style on the classic examples of antiquity, and Chinese literature attains as high a standard of excellence as that of any nation ancient or modern. The western students have neither the familiarity with the classics nor the phenomenal memories of Chinese scholars. As a result, the Chinese language often seems to them an amorphous collection of words and phrases which individually or collectively connote certain meanings. The book is the product of the extensive study of this language and its grammar.

John Darroch was a British missionary from Scotland who served in Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, and in Shanghai, China. He worked for a university in Shanxi and apart from Christian literature, issued or edited a number of Chinese-language study materials, related to subjects as geography, as well as several Chinese language study books in English. He also managed a street construction in Shanghai, for a while known as Darroch Road (now Doulun Road). Darroch is the author of books such as The Province of Kiangsu in The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey (1907); Report of the Central China Famine Relief Fund Committee (1907); Chinese Self-taught by the Natural Method phonetic pronounciation. Chinese Grammar Self-taught, (London, 1922).

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