This text is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution and was developed with a mini-grant from Maryland Open Source Textbooks. Author: Carolyn Shuttlesworth

This textbook was first compiled by Professor Patrick Hanan at Harvard University in 1984. In the introduction, Professor Hanan acknowledged his appreciation to those who had contributed to the completion and revision of the book. Since then many graduate teaching fellows and professors from the department of EALC at Harvard have provided invaluable suggestions for the revision of this textbook.

Introduction to Classical Chinese was produced with support from the Rebus Community, a non-profit organization building a new, collaborative model for publishing open textbooks. Critical to the success of this approach is including mechanisms to ensure that open textbooks produced with the Community are high quality, and meet the needs of all students who will one day use them. Rebus books undergo both peer review from faculty subject matter experts and beta testing in classrooms, where student and instructor feedback is collected. This book has been peer reviewed by the contributors, the book editors, and their students in the classroom.