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An anthology of Chinese literature : beginnings to 1911
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New York : W.W. Norton, ©1996.
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1st ed.
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0393038238, 9780393038231, 0393971066, 9780393971064
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xlviii, 1212 pages ; 25 cm
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Table of Contents
The classic of poetry : beginnings. CCLXXII "We have in hand" --
CCXC "Mowing grasses" --
The Zhou founding. CCXLV "She bore the folk" --
from Historical records. "Chronicles of Zhou" --
CCL "Liu the duke" --
CCXXXVII "Spreading" --
from The zhuang-zi. "Renouncing kingship --
CCXXXVI "The greater brightness" --
CCLV "Overbearing" --
CCLXII "Yangzi and Han" --
CLXVIII "Bringing forth the chariots" --
CLXXVII "Sixth month" --
Human sacrifice : making exchanges. CXXXI "Yellow bird" --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 6th year of Duke Wen --
The Zou tradition : an entry for the 19th year of Duke Xi --
from Mencius I A, 7.
The classic of poetry : "Airs". I "Fishhawk" --
IX "The Han so wide" --
Other voices in the tradition. Songs of my cares II / Ruan Ji --
Written at Wan Mountain pool / Meng Hao-ran --
Correspondences. VI "Peach tree soft and tender" --
X "Bluffs of the Ru" --
XLI "North wind" --
XII "Magpie's nest" --
XX "Plums are falling" --
XXIII "Dead roe deer" --
XXX "First the winds" --
XXXV "Valley winds" --
XC "Wind and rain" --
XLVI "Thorn-vine on the wall" --
LI "Rainbow" --
LXIII "Fox" --
XCIV "Creepers on the moorland" --
CXL "Willows by the eastern gate" --
CLXXXIV "Crane cries out" --
V "Grasshoppers' wings" --
CLXVII "Gather the fiddleheads" --
IV "Trees with bending boughs" --
VII "Rabbit snare" --
LIX "Bamboo pole."
The classic of poetry : "Airs". Understanding and misunderstanding : the need to explain. XLII " Gentle girl" --
LXI " The river is broad" --
LXIV "Quince" --
LXV "Millet lush" --
LXXVI "Zhong-zi, please" --
XXVI "Boat of cypress" --
XLV "Boat of cypress" --
Other poems. XCV "Zhen and Wei" --
CXXXVII "Eastern gate's white elms" --
CXI "Within ten acres" --
XVII "Dew on the way" --
XXXIV "Dry leaves on the gourd" --
LVI "We had our delight" --
LXXXI "I went along the broad road" --
LXXXII "Rooster crows" --
CXXXIII "No clothes" --
CXIII "Huge rat" --
CVII "Sandals of straw" --
Courtship, marriage, and love. CXXXVIII "Barred gate" --
XXIV "Ah, how splendid" --
CLVIII "Cutting the haft" --
XXII "The river has its forkings" --
XLVIII "In the mulberries" --
LXVI "My prince has taken the field" --
LXXIII "Great cart" --
LXXVII "Shu is on a field hunt" --
LXXXVII "Lift your kilts."
Using the poems and early interpretation. Analects XVII.9 --
Analects II.2 --
Analects I.15 --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 31st year of Duke Xiang --
from The Zhuang-zi. "Outer things" --
Mencius II A, 2.xi, xvii --
Mencius V A, 4.ii --
Mencius V B, 8.ii --
from Classic of documents. "Canon of Shun" --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 25th year of Duke Xiang --
from Classic of changes. "Appended discourses" --
"Elucidation of the images" / Wang Bi --
from the Zhuang-zi. "The way of heaven" --
The "great preface" to The classic of poetry --
Selections from the "Record of music --
Other voices in the tradition. from Peony pavilion. from scene VII : the schoolroom for women ; from scene IX : getting the garden in order / Tang Xian-zu.
Early narrative. Two sad stories of good behavior. The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 12th year of Duke Xuan --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 22nd year of Duke Xi --
An exegetical literature. Analects II.10 --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 14th year of Duke Zhuang --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 3rd year of Duke Ding --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 3rd year of Duke Xuan --
Heroes of the will. from the Schemes of the warring states --
Swindles and bad exchanges : the problems surrounding Bian He's jade. from the Han fei-zi. "He's jade" (or "Bian He's jade") --
from the "Biographies of Lian Bo and Lin Xiang-ru". Historical records --
The story of Wu Zi-xu. from Historical records. "Biography of Wu Zi-xu" --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 20th year of Duke Zhao --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 4th year of Duke Ding --
The Zuo tradition : an entry for the 11th year of Duke Ai --
Other voices in the tradition. A winter "white linen song" / Yuan Zhen --
to "Eight-note Gan-zhou", visiting the magic cliff with various gentlemen of the transport office / Wu Wen-ying.
Early literary prose : the delight of words. The wind --
"Of swords" --
from the Zhuang-zi. "Heaven's motions" --
The poetic exposition on the owl / Jia Yi --
from the Zhuang-zi. "Discourse on thinking of things as being on the same level" --
Coda. The old airs IX / Li Bo --
Early political oratory. from Classic of documents. "Tang's vow" --
The Zou tradition : an entry for the 26th year of Duke Zhao --
from the Schemes of the warring states --
Letter of protest to the Prince of Wu / Mei Sheng --
from the Zhuang-zi. "Attaining life" --
Si-ma Qian. Letter in reply to Ren An ; The biography of Bo Yi and Shu Qi ; The prince of Wei ; from "Biographies of the assassins" : Nie Zheng / Si-ma Qian --
The Chu-ci : "Lyrics of Chu". "The nine songs". The sovereign of the East : the one --
Lord in the clouds --
The lady of the Xiang River --
The senior master of lifespans --
The junior master of lifespans, "Lord Iris" --
The lord of the East --
The Yellow River's earl --
The hill wraith --
The kingdom's dead --
Rites for souls --
The Li sao.
The Chu-ci tradition. Journeys heavenly and earthly. Far roaming --
The great one / Si-ma Xiang-ru --
Songs of my cares LXVIII / Ruan Ji --
Wandering to the Tian-tai Mountains / Sun Chuo --
The encounter with the goddess. from The poetic exposition on Gao-tang. Opening ; The goddess / Song Yu --
The goddess of the Luo / Cao Zhi --
Other voices in the tradition. from "Accounts of marvels" : Xiao Kuang. Opening section / Pei Xing --
Songs for the goddess' shrine on Fish Mountain. Song welcoming the goddess ; Song sending the goddess on her way / Wang Wei --
String music for the gods / Li He --
Written on the temple of Mount Xiao / Wen Ting-yun --
Shrine by the river / Guan-xiu --
Wu Mountain / Su Shi --
Calling back the soul. "Calling back the soul --
"Calling back the recluse" --
Other voices in the tradtion. Seven sorrows / Ruan Yu --
Pall bearer's song II / Tao Qian --
Hard ways to Shu / Li Bo --
Interlude between the "Lyrics of Chu" and Yue-fu : "The biography of Lady Li". from "The biographies of the imperial in-laws". The Han history / Ban Gu.
The Chinese "Middle Ages". Yue-fu. Heaven above --
The one I love --
South of the walls we fought --
East of Ping-ling --
Prelude : white swans in pairs --
Cocks crow --
Meeting --
Chang-an has narrow alleys --
Other voices in the tradition. The sensual charms of the three wives / Shen Yue --
Yue fu. Song of white hair --
Mulberries by the path --
Xin Yan-nian, officer of the guard --
I watered my horse at a spring by the wall / Chen Lin --
Yue-fu of the south. Zi-ye songs, I-II, XII, XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXIV, XXXIII, XXXVI --
The Zi-ye songs of the four seasons. Spring songs, VI, IX-X ; Winter songs, XIII --
"I ride the coach with polished sides" / Little Su --
Yang pan-er --
Yue-fu of the northern dynasties. Qi-yu songs, I, IV --
Song of the prince of Lang-ya --
The ballad of Mu-lan --
Breaking the branches of willows, I-III --
Other voices in the tradition : the later lineages of Yue-fu. South of the walls we fought / Li Bo --
South of the wall we fought / Wang Shi-zhen --
South of the walls we fought / Li Ye-si --
Yang pan-er / Li Bo --
Song lyric to "Boddhisattva barbarian" / Anonymous.
The beginnings of classical poetry. Parting and going off. East Gate --
Anonymous old poem / Su Wu --
Seven sorrows I / Wang Can --
Songs of my cares III / Ruan Ji --
Longing on the road. Nineteen old poems I --
To his wife / Qin Jia --
Coming to the city. Nineteen old poems, III and IV --
Alone at night. Nineteen old poems, XIX --
Seven sorrows II / Wang Can --
Songs of my cares I / Ruan Ji --
Nineteen old poems X --
To "Gods on the Magpie Bridge" / Qin Guan --
The message and gift. Watering my horse by the Great Wall --
Nineteen old poems IX --
The stranger and the woman. Prelude --
Nineteen old poems II and V --
Impermanence and disillusion. Nineteen old poems XIII, XIV and XV --
The return. Anonymous old poem --
Sending off Mr. Ying / Cao Zhi --
Coda : reencounter. Old poem --
The poets. The bitter cold / Cao Cao --
With the army V / Wang Can --
Unclassified poem / Liu Zhen --
Unclassified poem I / Cao Zhi --
Chamber thoughts III / Xu Gan --
Three versions of "Since you have gone away" / Yan-Shi bo, Wang Rong and Chen Shu-bao --
Cao Zhi. Presented to Cao Biao, Prince of Bai-ma ; Song of a brown wren in wild fields ; Unclassified poem II / Cao Zhi --
Ruan Ji. Songs of my cares XVI, VI and XXXIII / Ruan Ji --
Turning away. Calling to the recluse / Lu Ji --
Calling to the recluse I / Zuo Si.
Feast. Classic of poetry CXV "Hawthorn on the mountain" --
Classic of poetry CXIV "Cricket" --
Classic of poetry CLXI "Deer cry" --
from "Calling back the soul" --
Song of the autumn wind --
[Untitled] / Chen Lin --
Dew on the onion grass --
The graveyard --
West gate --
Grand --
Short song / Cao Cao --
Grand / Cao Pi --
Public banquet / Cao Zhi --
Preface to the "Orchid Pavilion poems" / Wang Xi-zhi --
Bring in the wine / Li Bo --
Having fallen off my horse drunk, various gentlemen come to visit me bringing wine / Du Fu --
Drunk, to Zhang Shu of the imperial library / Han Yu --
Inviting writers to drink / Meng Jiao --
Bring in the wine / Li He --
An invitation for Mr. Liu / Bo Ju-yi --
to "The pleasures of kicking the football" / Feng Yan-si --
to "Washing creek sands" ; to "Reaching golden gates" / Yan Shu --
to "Fragrance fills the yard" : written on a summer day at Wu-xiang Mountain in Li-shui / Zhou Bang-yan --
The poetic exposition on Red Cliff / Su Shi --
Anecdotes, parables, and profound jokes. from the Zhuang-zi --
from the Han fei-zi --
from Discourses of the domains --
from the Huai-nan-zi --
from The park of stories --
from the Lie-zi --
from The forest of jokes --
from The forest of tales --
from Sundry accounts of the western capital --
from New stories and tales of the times / Liu Yi-quing --
An account of peach blossom spring / Tao Qian.
The poetry of the southern dynasties. Confucius, Analects XI.26 ; Seasons shift ; Biography of Master Five Willows ; Dwelling in peace on the double ninth ; Drinking wine V ; Returning to dwell in gardens and fields I ; Moving my dwelling I ; The sixth month of 408 : we had a fire ; Begging ; Reading the Classic of mountains and seas I / Tao Qian --
Fu-chun Isle ; Written on the lake, returning from the chapel at Stone Cliff ; Climbing an upper story by the pool ; Visiting the southern pavilion / Xie Ling-yun --
Hard traveling IV, II and VI ; Song of the bright moon / Bao Zhao --
The southern courts. Performers on the terrace of the bronze sparrow / He Xun --
A companion piece for Xie Jing's "Terrace of the bronze sparrow" / Xie Tiao --
Song of Yong-zhou : II North isle ; Source of pain II ; Song : every night ; Roaming in the north park by night ; Sending a palace lady back by night to the rear boat ; On a lone duck ; New swallows ; The reflection of a high building in the water / Xiao Gang --
Zi-ye song / Liu Yan (Emperor Wu of the Liang) --
Going out early and meeting an old love, I give this to her in her carriage / Shen Yue --
Song on reflections in water / Madam Shen --
Quatrains on various topics I / Wu Jun --
Spring longings / Wang Seng-ru --
On a woman unwilling to come forth / Liu Xiao-chuo --
Respectfully answering "Drifting on the river" ; Study in the hills ; A companion piece for Grand Master Yan's "Newly cleared skies" / Yu Xin --
The image of the southern dynasties. A ballad of the Yong-jia / Zhang Ji --
A song of Lord Xie's villa ; Song for the bank where the cock crowed / Wen Ting-yun --
In Jin-ling : a second series on watching a chess game / Qian Qian-yi.
Traditional literary theory. The poetic exposition on literature / Lu Ji --
from Wen-xin diao-long ("The literary mind carves dragons"). Its source in the way : chapter 1 ; Spirit thought : chapter 26 ; Nature and form : chapter 27 ; Continuity and variation : chapter 29 ; Determination of momentum : chapter 30 ; Hidden and outstanding : chapter 40 ; The sensuous colors of physical things : chapter 46 ; The one who knows the tone : chapter 48 / Liu Xie --
A discourse on literature / Cao Pi.
The Tang dynasty. Tang poetry : general introduction. Occasions : "Sorry to have missed you". Answering the poem left by Mr. Su, nominally of the Bureau of Forestry, when he stopped by my villa at Lan-tian / Wang Wei --
Going to visit censor Wang on my day off and not finding him home / Wei Ying-wu --
Walking in the hills and looking for the recluse, but finding him not in / Qiu Wei --
Looking for the recluse and not finding him home / Jia Doa --
Spending the night in Reverend Ye's mountain chamber. I was expecting the senior Mr. Ding, but he did not come / Meng Hao-ran --
I chanced on rain at Wang-kou and recalled Mount Zhong-nan : thus I offered the following quatrain / Pei Di --
Answering Pei Di / Wang Wei --
Parting. Sending Mr. Yuan on his way on a mission to An-xi ; Parting / Wang Wei --
Parting from Mr. Xue at Guang-ling / Meng Hao-ran --
Sending a friend on his way ; A song of Ming-gao : sending off Mr. Cen, a gentleman in retirement who was summoned to court / Li Bo --
Other poem types. On the set topic : "Wild goose on the sands" / Geng Wei --
Lone wild goose / Du Fu --
Early migrating geese / Du Mu --
Character types and vignettes. Palace lyrics XCV / Wang Jian --
Song of the southland / Yu Hu --
Lotus-picking song ; Lyrics for the girls of Yue I-V / Li Bo --
Lotus-picking song / Bo Ju-yi --
An example of verse form. Stopping by the Temple of Incense Massed / Wang Wei.
High Tang poetry. Perspective, motion, and attention. Written crossing the Yellow River to Qing-he ; Watching a hunt ; Sight-seeing in the moors outside of Liang-zhou / Wang Wei --
The image of the farmer. Farming homes by Wei River / Wang Wei --
Other voices in the tradition. Classic of poetry XXXVI "Hard straits" --
Returning to dwell in gardens and fields III / Tao Qian --
Stopping by the manor of an old friend / Meng Hao-ran --
The image of the farmer. Gazing into the wilds under newly cleared skies ; To Pei Di / Wang Wei --
The quiet life. When living quietly at Wang-chuan I gave this to Pei Di ; Villa on Zhong-nan Mountain ; Answering magistrate Zhang / Wang Wei --
Other voices in the tradition. The fisherman --
The "Wang Stream collection". The hollow by Meng's walls ; Hua-zi Hill ; Fine-grained apricot wood lodge ; Jin Bamboo Ridge ; Deer fence ; Magnolia fence ; Dogwood strand ; The lane of palace ash trees ; Pavilion overlooking the lake ; South cottage ; Lake Qi ; Willow waves ; Rapids by the luan trees ; Gold dust spring ; White stone rapids ; North cottage ; Lodge in the bamboo ; Magnolia dell ; Lacquer tree garden ; Pepper tree garden / Wang Wei --
Going from Luo-yang to Yue ; Gazing from a boat in the early morning ; Early cold on the river : something on my mind / Meng Hao-ran --
Other voices in the tradition. Analects XVIII.6 / Confucius.
High Tang poetry. Legends and characters of the Yue-fu. Parted by great distances ; The crows cry by night / Li Bo --
Other voices in the tradition. "Songs of the west" ; "The crows cry by night IV / Anonymous --
Legends and characters of the Yue-fu. Reproach / Li Bo --
The undying. The old airs V ; The old airs VII ; A song on visiting Heaven's Crone Mountain in a dream : on parting ; Dialogue in the mountains / Li Bo --
Poems almost of this world. Drinking alone by moonlight ; Summer day in the mountains ; Rising drunk on a spring day, telling my intent ; Getting out what I feel ; A lament for old Mr. Ji, the finest brewer in Xuan-cheng / Li Bo --
Han-shan : the master of Cold Mountain. III ; XVI ; XXXII ; CCXXXII ; CCXXXIII / Han-shan --
The high Tang quatrain. Peach Blossom Creek / Zhang Xu --
Song of Liang-zhou / Wang Han --
Song of Liang-zhou ; Parting ; Climbing Stork Tower / Wang Zhi-huan --
Other voices in the tradition. Parting / Zhang Rong --
The high Tang quatrain. Song of Xiang-yang ; Midcurrent song ; A little Chang-gan song / Cui Guo-fu --
Army song ; Song of the spring palace ; Reproach in the women's chambers / Wang Chang-ling --
The roads of Luo-yang : presented to the director Lü Xiang ; Song of the southland / Chu Guang-xi --
Painting of a pine / Jing-yun --
On the terrace of Cang Jie's invention of characters at the San-hui temple / Cen Shen --
An outing on Lake Dong-ting. Accompanied by my kinsman Li Ye, formerly vice director of the Ministry of Justice, and by Jia Zhi, formerly drafter in the Secretariat, I go on an excursion on Lake Dong-ting / Li Bo --
On first arriving in Ba-ling, joining Li Bo and Pei, we go boating on Lake Dong-ting / Jia Zhi.
Du Fu. Early Du Fu. Another poem on Mr. Zheng's eastern pavilion ; A Mei-pi Lake song ; Boating on the reservoir west of the city / Du Fu --
Giving account of oneself. A song of my cares when going from the capital to Feng-xian / Du Fu --
The poetry of the rebellion. The view in spring ; Lament for Chen-tao ; Lament for Greenslope ; Lament by the river ; Jiang village ; Bending river ; The officer at Tong Pass / Du Fu --
Qin-zhou and Cheng-du. Taking down a trellis ; I stand alone ; The river flooded ; River village ; Enjoying rain on a spring night / Du Fu --
On painting. Painted hawk ; Ballad of the painted eagle ; Song of a painting / Du Fu --
Kui-zhou and Du Fu's final years. The diagram of eight formations ; Ballad of an old cypress ; Autumn stirrings ; Quatrain ; Where Yangzi meets the Han ; End of spring : on my newly rented thatched cottage at Rang-xi III ; Night's midpoint ; Sunlight cast back / Du Fu --
Interlude : Xuan-zong and Yang the prized consort. Song of lasting pain / Bo Ju-yi --
An account to go with the "Song of lasting pain" / Chen Hong --
On passing by Hua-qing Palace / Du Mu --
Gazing on Hua-qing Palace at daybreak / Wang Jian --
Dragon pool stirred by something at Mount Li / Li Shang-yin --
Ballad of the former palace ; Passing by Lace-crest Palace / Wang Jian --
Addendum : "The whirl". The girl who danced the whirl / Yuan Zhen --
The girl who danced the whirl / Bo Ju
yi.
Tang literature of the frontier. Crossing the barrier mountains / Zhang Zheng-jian --
I watered my horse at a spring by the wall : imitating the old ballad / Yu Shi-nan --
Falling snow : a song / Lu Zhao-lin --
With the army : a ballad / Luo Bin-wang --
The high Tang frontier poem. Out the passes / Wang Chang-ling --
With the army : a ballad ; Long-xi : a ballad / Wang Wei --
The old airs XIV ; Moon over the mountain passes ; The Turks are gone! / Li Bo --
Variation on "Hard traveling" ; By the passes : a song / Wang Chang-ling --
Song of white snow : sending off Assistant Wu on his return to the capital ; The ballad of Running Horse River : sending off the army on a western campaign / Cen Shen --
The army wagons : a ballad / Du Fu --
Mid- and late Tang frontier poetry. By the passes / Lu Lun --
With the army : a ballad / Wang Jian --
Long-tou ballad / Zhang Ji --
Song for the governor of Wild Goose Barrier ; By the passes : a song / Li He --
By the passes : songs / Guan Xiu --
Du Fu : the formation of a soldier. Out to the frontier I-IX / Du Fu --
Aftermath. A lamentation at an ancient battlefield / Li Hua --
Coda. Encountering a wounded soldier / Lu Lun.
Mid- and late Tang poetry. Tormented ; Lying sick ; What was in my heart on a spring day ; Informal composition ; What came to me in a mood ; Plagiarizing poems ; Old man's bitterness ; Something touched me one night and I try to get it out ; Autumn cares II ; A visit to the south mountains ; A ballad of Mount Jing ; Seeing off Reverend Dan XII ; Answering a friend's gift of charcoal ; I tried to climb Zhao-cheng tower
/
Meng Jiao --
Autumn thoughts ; Visiting the temple of Mount Heng, then spending the night at the Buddhist monastery : I wrote this on the gate tower ; Written playfully to Zhang Ji ; Mountain stones / Han Yu --
Song of an arrowhead from the battlefield of Chang-ping ; Little Su's tomb ; Dream of heaven ; Song of a young nobleman at the end of night ; Release from melancholy : song / Li He --
Other voices in the tradition. from History of the Eastern Han --
Long songs following short songs ; The king of Qin drinking ; Don't go out the gate! ; Don't plant trees / Li He --
On my portrait ; What came to mind when chanting my poems ; Reciting aloud, alone in the mountains ; On my laziness ; Choosing a dwelling place in Luo-yang ; Eating bamboo shoots ; Winter night ; Salt merchant's wife / Bo Ju-yi.
Mid- and late Tang poetry. Pouring wine alone ; Written on the Kai-yuan temple at Xuan-zhou ; I wrote this on the tower
;
Spring in the southland ; Three poems thinking on past travels / Du Mu --
Other voices in the tradition. Quitting my post at He-zhou and visiting Jian-kang / Liu Yu-xi --
Going out on the Le-you plain ; Late autumn in the Qi-an district ; A quatrain on the pool behind the district office in Qi-an ; Egrets ; At the Yangzi and Han ; Sent to Judge Han Chuo in Yang-zhou ; The Yellow River at Bian-zhou blocked by ice ; A quatrain written on the road / Du Mu --
Other voices in the tradition. The pavilion of revising history / Si-kong Tu --
Selling tattered peonies ; Visiting the southern tower of Chong-zhen temple : seeing where the recent graduates of the examination have written their names ; On Yin-wu pavilion / Yu Xuan-ji --
Left untitled ; Again passing the shrine of the goddess ; Citadel of sapphire walls ; Midnight ; Sunbeams shoot ; Frost and moon ; Chang E ; Written during the rain one night and sent back north ; The Sui palace / Li Shang-yin --
Tang Tales. Two tales of keeping faith. "Ren's story" / Shen Ji-ji --
"Li Zhang-wu's story / Li Jing-liang --
Two tales of faith broken. "Huo Xiao-yu's story" / Jiang Fang --
"Ying-ying's story" / Yuan Zhen.
The Song dynasty. Traditions of song lyric (Tang and Song Dynasties). Bowing to the new moon / Li Duan or Geng Wei --
[Untitled] / Anonymous --
Treatment of a motif : the drunken husband's return. [Untitled] / Anonymous --
[Untitled] / Wei Zhuang --
[Untitled] / Xue Zhao-yun --
[Untitled] / Yin E --
"Hanging branch song" / Anonymous --
Tang and five dynasties lyrics. [Untitled] / Huang-fu Song --
[Untitled] / Wen Ting-yun --
[Untitled] / He Ning --
[Untitled] / Wei Zhuang --
[Untitled] / Ou-yang Jiong --
[Untitled] / Li Yu --
The party songs of the eleventh century. [Untitled] / Yan Shu --
[Untitled] / Ou-yang Xiu --
The songs of romance. [Untitled] / Yan Ji-dao --
[Untitled] / Liu Yong --
[Untitled] / Zhou Bang-yan --
[Untitled] / Su Shi --
Like a dream ; [Untitled] / Li Qing-zhao --
The early southern song. [Untitled] / Lu You --
An account on the Censer Mountain road ; Expressing what was on my mind ; [Untitled] / Xin Qi-ji --
The master craftsmen. [Untitled] / Jiang Kui --
On spring rain / Shi Da-zu --
[Untitled] ; Going along the Crane River on my way to the capital, I moored at Feng Gate and was moved to write this ; [Untitled] / Wu Wen-ying.
Interlude : Li Qing-zhao's epilogue to Records on metal and stone. Classical prose. Memorial. Memorial discussing the Buddha's bone / Han Yu --
Essay. A theory of heaven / Liu Zong-yuan --
Letters. Letter to Yan Zhen / Bo Ju-yi --
Prefaces. A preface for the Poems written on an excursion to Stonegate / Anonymous --
A preface on Sending Li Yuan back to Winding Valley / Han Yu --
Preface on Sending Xu Wu-tang off on his way home south / Ou-yang Xiu --
Accounts of visits. from the "Eight accounts of Yong-zhou. An account of the small hill west of Gu-mu pond ; An account of Little Rock Rampart Mountain / Liu Zong-yuan --
An account of the Pavilion of the Drunken Old Man / Ou-yang Xiu --
Funerary genres. A lament for golden gourd, Jin-hu / Cao Zhi --
A sacrificial prayer for the dead on my own behalf / Tao Qian --
Parables. from "Three cautionary tales". The fawn of Ling-jiang ; The story of the fuban, or pack beetle / Liu Zong-yuan --
Informal prose. Written after seeing the paintings of Wu Dao-zi / Su Shi --
Colophon on the "Account of the scarlet maple tower" / Fu Shan.
Place. The master of Cold Mountain --
from The forest of records. Account of a visit to Lu Mountain / Su Shi --
Account of Stone Bell Mountain / Su Shi --
Thrills. An account of a visit to North Mountain at Xin-cheng / Chao Bu-zhi --
Night passage over two passes / Cheng Min-zheng --
People and places. Preface to the "Joint collection of poems on seeking plums on Xuan-mu Mountain / Wen Zheng-ming --
An account of the pavilion on Mount Xian / Ou-yang Xiu --
A city : Yang-zhou. Getting something off my mind ; Presented to someone on parting ; Yang-zhou ; Written on Chan-zhi Temple in Yang-zhou / Du Mu --
Roaming free in Huai-nan / Zhang-Hu --
[Untitled] / Jiang Kui --
On Level Mountain Hall / Su Shi --
A account of the reconstruction of Level Mountain Hall / Wie Xi.
The ornaments of "literati" culture. Connoisseurship. Seal script in stone / Ou-yang Xiu --
Shi Cang-shu's "Hall of drunken ink" ; On the paintings of bamboo by Wen Tong in the collection of Chao Bu-zhi ; from "An account of Wen Tong's paintings of the slanted bamboo of Yun-dang Valley" / Su Shi --
On the painting of tiered bluffs and the misty river in the collection of Wang Ding-guo / Su Shi --
My brother Wang Chun-fu brings out a painting by the monk Hui-chong and engages me to write a poem on it / Wang An-shi --
from Remarks on poetry / Ou-yang Xiu --
"Some time ago in Chen Han-qing's house in Chang-an
" /
Su Shi --
Ordinary things. A companion piece to Xie Jing-chu's "Spending the night in my wife's study, hearing mice, and being greatly troubled" ; In the rain, spending the night in the library of Messrs. Xie, Xu and Pei ; At a party given by Fan Zhong-yan the guests spoke of eating "river-hog", or the blowfish / Mei Yao-chen --
A child playing with ice ; Watching ants / Yang Wan-li --
from Thirteen companion pieces for Wen Tong's "Garden pool in Yang-zhou". Bridge over the lake / Su Shi --
June 10, 1177, traveling by boat to take up my post at Pi-ling
/
Yang Wan-li --
East slope / Su Shi --
Snowy night ; Drawing water from the well and making tea / Lu You --
from Qi-dong ye-yu. "Sunning oneself" / Zhou Mi --
Spending the night at an inn outside the west gate of Ji-zhou / Chao Duan-you --
August 17, sleeping in the daytime / Huang Ting-jian --
Pastoral scenes. A walk in the wilds / He Zhu --
The grain is ripe / Kong Ping-zhong --
Ox / Ou-yang Xiu --
A description of walking in the meadows on Cold Food Festival / Fan Cheng-da --
Visiting West-of-the-Mountain village ; Walking in the wilds / Lu You --
Various occasions of interest in the fields and gardens through the four seasons : XV, XXXI, XXXIII, XL, XLIV, LII / Fan Cheng-da --
Wit. Strolling along a juniper path in the morning / Yang Wan-li --
On the three peaks of Magic Stone Mountain ; Plum blossoms III / Lu You --
For play / Yang Wan-li --
Coda : self-consciousness. Meeting a gentle rain on the Sword-Gate Pass road ; In moonlight / Lu You.
Su Shi. Account of the Hall of Precious Artworks ; [Untitled] ; Account of the terrace "Passing beyond" ; Getting up at night in a boat ; from The forest of notes. Visiting white waters. Written for my son Su Mai ; Account of a vist one night to Chang-tian Temple / Su Shi --
On the winter festival I visited Lone Mountain and the two monks Hui-jin and Hui-si ; from The forest of notes. Account of a visit to Pine River / Su Shi --
The ocean mirage at Deng-zhou ; Companion pieces to Chen Xiang's "Peonies on a winter day" ; from "Eight poems on eastern slope / Su Shi --
The second poetic exposition on Red Cliff ; Written on leaving Jing-kou ; Tong-chao Tower at Zheng-mai station ; Crossing the sea, June 20, 1100 / Su Shi --
Relationships. A companion piece to Su Che's "Thoughts of former times at Mian-chi" / Su Shi --
On the carved stone screen of Wu Kui, the Han-lin academician / Ou-yang Xiu --
Ou-yang Xiu asks me to write a poem on a stone screen that he owns ; An account of the Pavilion for Setting the Cranes Free / Su Shi.
Song classical poetry. On the Pavilion of the Drunken Old Man in Chu-zhou ; A companion piece to Liu Chang's "Clear heart paper" ; Boating on West Lake : to Zhang Shan, academician and Fiscal Commissioner ; White egret / Ou-yang Xiu --
A lone hawk over the Buddha tower of the Monastery of Universal Purity ; Writing of my sorrow ; Listening to a neighbor singing at night ; On March 26, 1048, I had a dream ; Crescent moon / Mei Yao-chen --
The Temple of Shooting Stars ; Meditation on the past at Jin-ling III ; Climbing Bao-gong Pagoda ; Wu-zhen monastery ; One day coming home : ballad / Wan An-shi --
Following the rhymes of Huang Da-lin's "Sent to Su Che" ; To Huang Ji-fu ; Asking for a cat / Huang Ting-jian --
Small garden ; Gazing in the evening north of my cottage ; End of spring ; Lonely cloud ; Song of draft cursive ; For my sons / Lu You --
Yan Ji-sheng, Chancellor of Education, invited his junior colleagues to visit the Pei garden
;
During an intercalary August after the "Arrival of autumn" it was hot in evening and I went to be cool in the prefectural garden ; One day before New Year's Eve, while returning by by boat, we moored at Qu-wo market, and I spent the night in Zhi-ping temple ; Just before the mid-March 1164 festival, I heard that my father was not feeling well
;
Two companion pieces for Li Tian-lin ; Ten stanzas on the autumn rain ; March 5, 1180. In early morning crossing on the great marsh ferry ; Going to the palace library early in the morning with the crescent moon just rising ; A child crying for food / Yang Wan-li --
Coda. Songs of Hu-zhou / Wang Yuan-liang --
[Untitled] / Anonymous --
Interlude : Wen Tian-xiang (1236-1282) and the fall of the Song. from The account of the compass / Wen Tian-xiang.
The Yuan and Ming dynasties. Yuan vernacular song. Not giving in to old age / Guan Han-qing --
A word about ugly studio / Zhong Si-cheng --
[Untitled] / Xu Zai-si --
[Untitled] / Bo Pu --
Of myself / Qiao Ji --
Big butterfly ; [Untitled] / Wang He-qing --
Passion / Lan Chu-fang --
[Untitled] / Guan Han-qing --
Spring passion / Xu Zai-si --
By the lake / Zhang Ke-jiu --
[Untitled] / Guan Yun-shi --
Thoughts on the past at Tong Pass / Zhang Yang-hao --
[Untitled] / Anonymous --
Autumn thoughts ; Clearing haze at a market in the hills ; A sail returns to the distant shore ; Evening bells in a misty temple ; Evening sunshine in a fishing village ; Autumn moonlight on Lake Dong-ting ; A suite on autumn thoughts / Ma Zhi-yuan --
Variety plays. Rescuing one of the girls / Guan Han-qing --
from The romance of the gods : Ne-zha and his father, episodes XII, XIII and XIV / Xu Zhong-lin.
Late Ming informal prose. "On the child-mind" / Li Zhi --
On Chen Zheng-fu's collected works, Intuitive grasp ; Spider-fighting ; Letter to Li Zi-ran ; Letter to Qiu Chang-ru / Yuan Hong-dao --
From the capital, to a friend / Tu Long --
A colophon for "The history of flowers" / Chen Ji-ru --
from "The dream recollections of Tao-an". Night theater on Gold Mountain ; Mid-September on West Lake ; Viewing the snow from "Heart of the Lake Pavilion" ; The performance of Peng Tian-xi / Zhang Dai --
Preface to "Tracing West Lake in a dream" / Zhang Dai --
Belatedness. A preface to "Poetry of the Song and Yuan" / Yuan Zhong-dao --
Diary. from "Account of my travels in Fei" / Yuan Zhong-dao --
from "Ten days of Yang-zhou" / Wang Xiu-chu --
Vernacular stories : Feng Meng-long and Lang-xian. from Common words to warn the world. "Du Tenth sinks the jewel box in anger" / Feng Meng-long --
from Constant words to awaken the world. "Censor Xue finds immortality in the guise of a fish" / Lang-xian --
Peony pavilion : selected acts. An introductory comment on Peony pavilion ; Waking suddenly from dream ; Looking over the portrait ; Secret union / Tang Xian-zu.
The Qing dynasty. from Silent operas. "An actress scorns wealth and honor to preserve her chastity" / Li Yu --
Peach blossom fan : selected acts. Prologue ; Teaching the song ; Refusing the trousseau ; Sending the fan ; from Accepting the way / Kong Shang-ren --
The palace of lasting life : selected acts. Prologue and argument ; Declaration of love ; Bribe ; Outing on a spring holiday ; Omen ; The music ; Melody-theft ; Bringing her fruit ; The circle for dance ; Peeking at the bathers ; Secret pledge ; Jade burial ; Gift of a meal ; Denouncing the rebel ; Bells ; Stocking-viewing ; The corpse released ; Ballad ; The immortal's recollections ; Reunion / Hong Sheng --
from Liao-zhai's record of wonders. Lian-xiang ; Xiao-cui ; Blue maid / Pu Song-ling.
Qing classical poetry and song lyric. Autumn hills / Gu Yan-wu --
Escaping the fighting ; A lament for my daughter ; West fields ; Mooring in the evening ; from Thoughts stirred on meeting the gardener of the Royal Academy in Nanjing / Wu Wei-ye --
Crossing the ancient barrier pass in the rain ; On the Ba River bridge : sent home to my wife ; Farm home by Cu-lai Mountain ; On the Qing-yang road ; What I saw on the northern outskirts of Zhen-zhou ; At daybreak I crossed the Ping-jiang River and climbed on foot to the summit of Crossing-Above-Clouds Mountain / Wang Shi-zhen --
[Untitled] ; Account of a dream in Xiao temple ; Thoughts on the anniversary of my wife's death ; [Untitled] ; On the frontier / Nara Singde --
Poems on my dwelling in the rear park ; Returning on Yang Lake ; Local song ; In bed ; Livelihood ; On poetry / Zhao Yi --
Written at night at an inn in the hills ; [Untitled] ; Visiting Ju-fa-yuan Temple with Wang Qiu-cheng and Zhang He-chai ; A companion piece to a poem by Qian Bai-quan ; Dreaming of a friend one night ; Offhand compositions : New Year's Eve 1774 / Huang Jing-ren --
Poems of the year Ji-hai, 1839: V, LXXXVI, CXXV and CLXX ; Another repentance ; From spring to autumn of 1827 some things came to me which I wrote down haphazardly / Gong Zi-zhen --
On reaching Hong Kong ; Various responses on an ocean voyage / Huang Zun-xian --
Mr. Ishii of Japan seeks a matching verse ; On the Yellow Sea : a man from Japan sought some verses and also showed me a map of the Russo-Japanese War / Qiu Jin --
[Untitled] / Wang Guo-wei.
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New York : W.W. Norton, ©1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
ISBN
0393038238, 9780393038231, 0393971066, 9780393971064
Notes
General Note
Translations from Chinese.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1153-1164) and index.
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Moving roughly chronologically, An Anthology of Chinese Literature gathers texts according to genres, themes, forms, and other groupings to show the way essential texts build off one another and how the tradition echoes itself. Including a range of forms - songs, letters, anecdotes, stories, plays, political oratory, traditional literary theory, and more - the anthology's innovative structure breaks new ground by providing a previously unavailable view of the interplay between Chinese literature, culture, and history to alert non-Chinese readers to what premodern Chinese readers would have noticed instinctively. Helpful apparatus, including a general introduction describing the evolution of Chinese literature, a note on translation, period introductions, a timeline, and interpretive commentary, make the tradition accessible not only to the student of Chinese literature but also to the general reader.
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Owen, S. (1996). An anthology of Chinese literature: beginnings to 1911 . W.W. Norton.
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