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.
This is the first volume available on the U.S. market to introduce comprehensively and systematically all of the major genres of classical Chinese prose in the form of a classical Chinese textbook taught through modern Mandarin Chinese. Teachers and students will benefit from its broad coverage, flexibility for course use, and its useful glossary-index. -- Benjamin Ridgway, Swarthmore College With its judiciously selected sample texts and expertly prepared learning aids, this latest volume in the How to Read Chinese Literature series is an excellent choice for those interested in studying essential classical Chinese while gaining a literary appreciation of Chinese prose in different genres from different periods. -- Xiaoshan Yang, author of <i>Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry</i>