Mister Ma's Grammar Guide to Literary Chinese. The Original Chinese Text of the Mashi Wentong with Chinese-English Character and Word Glossaries

This Grammar on Literary Chinese by Ma Jianzhong (1845-1900) was the first of its kind ever to be written by a native Chinese on Chinese and was published in 1898. It came at a time when Imperial China was in decline not only by loss of her sovereignty to the then Western colonial powers and when there was a strong feeling of insecurity about the relevance of ancient native Chinese culture in a mo...