Daode jing
道可道、非常道。名可名、非常名。 無名天地之始 有名萬物之母。故常無欲以觀其妙、常有欲以觀其徵。此兩者同出而異名。同謂之玄。玄之又玄、衆妙之門。
The Way that can be followed is not the eternal Way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth
While naming is the origin of the myriad things.
Therefore, always desireless, you see the mystery
Ever desiring, you see the manifestations.
These two are the same—
When they appear they are named differently.
This sameness is the mystery,
Mystery within mystery;
The door to all marvels.
Translated by Charles Muller
URL: http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/daodejing.html
Dao de jing [electronic resource] : the book of the way by Publication Date: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.(Source: ebrary Academic Complete) translation and commentary by Moss Roberts
CHIN 342/542 Intro to Classical Chinese
This research guide is designed to provide library resources and other available resources for the study of Classical Chinese. For CHIN342 and CHIN542, the focus is on pre-Han and Han texts. These include jing (經, canonical texts and commentaries), shi (史, historical works), zi (子, philosophical works belonging to schools of thought other than Confucian, but also works of agriculture, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, divination, art criticism, and all sorts of miscellaneous writings) and ji (集, literary works). In addition, research skills to find print materials in the library catalog, WorldCat, Interlibrary Loan Services, Chinese language databases, and the use of RefWorks to process citation and bibliographies are included. Interested students should contact Chinese Studies Librarian for assistance.
Contents:
- DictionariesChinese and Chinese-English dictionaries.
- CHIN 544: Legalist Philosophical Texts (spring 2012)Readings in classical Chinese of the Legalism philosophical Texts
- Daoist Philosophical TextsReadings in Classical Chinese of Daoist Philosophical Texts
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781603844697Publication Date: 2011-03-04
- Introduction to Classial Chinese: Chinesenotes.com (Fo Guang Shan 佛光山 )A straight-forward website with various grammatical topics.
- Introduction to Literary Chinese: Part IPart I of this primer in wenyanwen (Literary Chinese) consistes of fourteen lessons, each taking an authentic passage as its primary text, generally reproduced from a traditional edition. Punctuation is provided for each text, vocabulary is fully glossed, grammar notes are provided, and each lesson also includes a set of exercises. General vocabulary and grammar indexes are appended.
- Introduction to Literary Chinese: Part IIPart II of this primer in wenyanwen (Literary Chinese) consistes of twelve lessons, each taking an authentic passage as its primary text, generally reproduced from a traditional edition. Texts are generally unpuntuated, but an appendix of punctuated versions is provided (teachers using the materials may delete this section, if they choose). Vocabulary is fully glossed and texts, which are generally considerably longer and more challenging than in Part I, are introduced by background information and accompanied by English-language annotations. Part II is meant to introduce students both to a wider range of literary texts and to certain types of advanced technical challenges.
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