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 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.