Bryan van Norden is an amazing text. Get your hands on Pulleyblank in addition to Rouzer. Those are your go-tos for grammar and a sense of how Classical Chinese functions.
I'd also recommend (a) Archie Barnes' Chinese through Poetry as a way to help more quickly build a Chinese poetic vocabulary. Fuller's An Introduction to Chinese Poetry (his intro grammar is good too, Rouzer's just the standard), and Hawkes' A Little Primer on Du Fu.
You'll also want to get Pleco on your phone/tablet and the add-on of Kroll's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. The ability for it to recognize character via the camera is game-changing.
If you need copies of anything, sans the van Norden, shoot me a DM.
Last edited by Andrew Szilvasy; 02-14-2021 at 05:59 PM.
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