Contents
- Early China
- The Classic of Poetry: Beginnings
- The Zhou Founding
- Human Sacrifice: Making Exchanges
- The Classic of Poetry: "Airs"
- Correspondences
- Understanding and Misunderstanding: The Need to Explain
- Courtship, Marriage, and Love
- Using the Poems and Early Interpretation
Early Narrative - Two Sad Stories of Good Behavior
- An Exegetical Literature
- Heroes of the Will
- Swindles and Bad Exchanges: The Problems Surrounding Bian He’s Jade
- The Story of Wu Zi-xu
- Early Literary Prose: The Delight of Words
- The Zhuang-zi
- Coda
- Early Political Oratory
Si-ma Qian
The Chu-ci: "Lyrics of Chu" - "The Nine Songs"
- The Li Sao
- The Chu-ci Tradition
- Journeys Heavenly and Earthly
- The Encounter with the Goddess
- Calling Back the Soul
"The Biography of Lady Li" - The Chinese "Middle Ages"
- Yue-fu
- Yue-fu of the South
- Yue-fu of the Northern Dynasties
- The Beginnings of Classical Poetry
- Parting and Going Off
- Longing on the Road
- Coming to the City
- Alone at Night
- The Message and Gift
- The Stranger and the Woman
- Impermanence and Disillusion
- The Return
- Coda: Reencounter
- The Poets
- Cao Zhi
- Ruan Ji Turning Away
- Feast
Anecdotes, Parables, and Profound Jokes
The Poetry of the Southern Dynasties - Tao Quian
- Xie Ling-yun
- Bao Zhao
- The Southern Courts
- The Image of the Southern Dynasties
- Traditional Literary Theory
- The Tang Dynasty
- Tang Poetry: General Introduction
- Occasions: "Sorry to Have Missed You"
- Parting
- Other Poem Types
- Character Types and Vignettes
- An Example of Verse Form
- High Tang Poetry
- Wang Wei
- Meng Hao-ran
- Li Bo Han-shan: The Master of Cold Mountain
- The High Tang Quatrain
- Du Fu
- Early Du Fu
- Giving Account of Oneself
- The Poetry of the Rebellion
- Qin-zhou and Cheng-du
- On Painting
- Kui-zhou and Du Fu’s Final Years
- Interlude: Xuan-zong and Yang the Prized Consort
Tang Literature of the Frontier - The High Tang Frontier Poem
- Mid- and Late Tang Frontier Poetry
- Du Fu: The Formation of a Soldier
- Aftermath
- Coda
- Mid- and Late Tang Poetry
- Meng Jiao
- Han Yu
- Li He
- Bo Ju-yi
- Du Mu
- Yu Xuan-ji
- Li Shang-yin
- Tang Tales
- Two Tales of Keeping Faith
- Two Tales of Faith Broken
- The Song Dynasty
- Traditions of Song Lyric
- Treatment of a Motif: The Drunken Husband’s Return
- Tang and Five Dynasties Lyrics
- Party Songs of the Eleventh Century
- Songs of Romance
- Su Shi
- Li Qing-zhao
- The Early Southern Song
- The Master Craftsmen
- Interlude: Li Qing-zhao’s Epilogue to Records on Metal and Stone
Classical Prose - Memorial
- Essay
- Letters
- Prefaces
- Accounts of Visits
- Funerary Genres
- Parables
- Informal Prose
- Thrills
- People and Places
- A City: Yang-zhou
- Place
The Ornaments of "Literati" Culture - Connoisseurship
- Ordinary Things
- Pastoral Scenes Wit
- Coda
- Su Shi
- Relationsips
- Song Classical Poetry
- Ou-yang Xiu
- Mei Yao-chen
- Wang An-shi
- Huang Ting-jian
- Lu You
- Yang Wan-Li
- Coda
- Interlude: Wen Tian-xiang and the Fall of the Song
- The Yuan and Ming Dynasties
- Yuan Vernacular Song
- Ma Zhi-yuan
- Variety Plays: Guan Han-qing, Rescuing One of the Girls from The Romance of the Gods
Late Ming Informal Prose - Belatedness
- Diary
- Vernacular Stories: Feng Meng-long and Lang-xian
- Tang Xian-zu, Peony Pavilion: Selected Acts
- The Qing Dynasty
- Li Yu, Silent Operas: "An Actress Scorns Wealth and Honor to Preserve Her Chastity"
- Kong Shang-ren, from Peach Blossom Fan
- Hong Sheng, from The Palace of Lasting Life
- Pu Song-ling, Liao-zhai’s Record of Wonders
- Qing Classical Poetry and Song Lyric
- Gu Yan-wu
- Wu Wei-ye
- Wang Shi-zhen
- Nara Singde
- Zhao Yi
- Huang Jing-ren
- Gong Zi-zhen
- Huang Zun-xian
- Qiu Jin
- Wang Guo-wei
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