This is a fairly quick post, but I wanted it up here because a) I find it interesting, and b) it fits the criteria here! I, upon doing research on old printed materials and woodblock prints, and I stumbled into the Tripitaka Koraena, a huge collection of sutras in South Korea. The blocks were first carved in the 1000s and then once again in the ( Read more... )

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FINALLY I find sources on kanbun, and I intend on finding more of them!! I found An Introduction to Kambun by Sydney Crawcour, and it's rather fascinating -- at least to me. :: laugh ( Read more... )

Pre-classical Chinese is a curious beast for me. My inexperience with Classical Chinese (outside of various writings I've procured that were written by the Japanese in CC) yet my knowledge that no one spoke the way they wrote in, say, the seventeenth century led me to believe that the language was spoken the way it was written centuries before ( Read more... )

This is mostly for my own benefit -- you know, for when I wipe all of my bookmarks and want to find this once again -- but for all those who may be interested:

A Concise Grammar Of Chinese Grammar.

Obviously works from the pre-Classical era and the grammars used there aren't included, but it's still a good read.