Book sale!

[oyceter]

Via glass_icarus, Princeton University Press is having an online sale in the US and Canada until March 31!

I am currently thinking of getting Classical Chinese Supplement: Selections from Historical Texts because I feel I should work on all the 文言文 I memorized in high school, Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese if it'll work on my iMac, and India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England.

I am sad how many books on POC are being written by white people =(.

Things I am not sure I should get but am convinced someone on my r/flist should (all from the "under $15 bin, since I did not allow myself to look outside it for fear of temptation):

• Complexities: Women in Mathematics


• Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle


• Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures


• Enough to Say It's Far: Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam


• Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students


• After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (alas for oracne, this is WWII, not WWI)


• Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization

... and there is probably a lot more, but I zoned out after a while. Still. Academic books! For relatively cheap! OMG Chinese textbooks!

Comments

[jiawen]

As I learned it, Classical is 古典漢語, while Literary is 文言文.

[oyceter]

Huh, I don't know that distinction... possibly because we just learned wenyanwen in school? Or it might be a Mainland thing?

[jiawen]

Probably not a Mainland thing... the prof I learned it from is pretty even-handed as far as Mainland/Taiwan Mandarin, maybe even with a little bias towards Taiwan.

As Jerry Norman defines it, "Classical Chinese is a conventional way of referring to the written form of Old Chinese, the language of the period from the end of the Spring and Autumn period down to the end of the Han dynasty" (p. 83). (Really good book, by the way; I strongly recommend it.)