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An Introduction to Literary Chinese Kids25 he can hardly bear toThe second edition of An Introduction to Literary Chinese incorporates recent developments in linguistics and has been expanded to include a lesson on Buddhist texts. Beginning with an overview of literary Chineseits phonology, morphology, and syntax, as well as a short account of the nature of the writing systemthe textbook then presents thirty six lessons of increasing difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns of the language