| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Bibliographical Note | p. xxvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxix |
| Map of the Provinces of China | p. xxxi |
| Foundations and Interpretations | |
| Divinations and Inscriptions | |
| A Late Shang Divination Record | p. 3 |
| A Bronze Inscription of the Western Chou | p. 4 |
| The Book of Changes of the Chou People | p. 5 |
| An Early Commentary on the Classic of Changes | p. 10 |
| Philosophy, Thought, and Religion | |
| Attributed to Kuan Chung, Kuan Tzu, "Duties of the Student" | p. 12 |
| Anonymous, Confucian Analects, Book 2 | p. 17 |
| Meng K'o, Mencius, "Bull Mountain" and "Fish and Bear's Paws" | p. 20 |
| Chuang Chou, Chuang Tzu, Chapter 17 and other passages | p. 22 |
| Attributed to Lao Tzu, The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way: Tao te ching | p. 32 |
| Attributed to Lieh Yu-k'ou, Lieh Tzu, "The Stupid Old Man Who Moved a Mountain" | p. 37 |
| Translated by Hsuan-tsang, Abhidharma-mahavibhasa-sastra, Chapter 99: "The Sins of Mahadeva" | p. 39 |
| Criticism and Theory | |
| Hsiao T'ung, Preface to Literary Selections | p. 46 |
| Hsieh Ho, Preface to Record of the Classification of Old Painters | p. 51 |
| Yen Yu, Ts'ang-lang's Discussions of Poetry, "An Analysis of Poetry" | p. 52 |
| Yuan Hao-wen, "Poems on Poetry, No. 30" | p. 58 |
| Verse | |
| Classical Poetry | |
| Anonymous, Classic of Odes | p. 61 |
| Liu Chen, "Cockfight" | p. 73 |
| Juan Chi, "Songs of My Soul" | p. 74 |
| Kuo P'u, "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" | p. 77 |
| T'ao Ch'ien "Poems After Drinking Wine" (No. 5) | p. 77 |
| "On Reading the Mountains and Seas Classic" | p. 79 |
| Hsieh Ling-yun, "On My Way from South Mountain to North Mountain, I Glance at the Scenery from the Lake" | p. 80 |
| Shen Yueh, "Harmonizing with a Poem by Left Assistant Yu Kao-chih Requesting Sick Leave" | p. 81 |
| "Listening to Gibbons at Rock-Pool Creek" | p. 81 |
| Wang Seng-ju, "Describing a Dream for Someone" | p. 82 |
| Yu Chien-wu, "Spring Day" | p. 82 |
| Hsiao Kang, "A Pheasant on His Morning Flight" | p. 83 |
| Brahmacarin Wang, [Untitled] | p. 83 |
| Lo Pin-wang, "On the Cicada: In Prison" | p. 84 |
| Ho Chih-chang, "Written Impromptu upon Returning to My Hometown" | p. 85 |
| Ch'en Tzu-ang, "Poems of Reflection on the Vicissitudes of Life" | p. 85 |
| Chang Chiu-ling, "Poems of Reflection on the Vicissitudes of Life" | p. 87 |
| Wang Chih-huan, "Climbing the Stork Pavilion" | p. 87 |
| Meng Hao-jan, "Seeking Out Master Chan on Incense Mountain" | p. 88 |
| "Spring Dawn" | p. 89 |
| "Passing Seven-League Rapids" | p. 89 |
| Wang Ch'ang-ling, "Silent at Her Window" | p. 90 |
| Wang Wei, "Climbing Pien-chueh Temple" | p. 90 |
| "Second Song for the Worship of the Goddess at Yu Mountain: 'Bidding the Goddess Farewell'" | p. 91 |
| "Deer Enclosure" | p. 92 |
| Li Po, "To Meng Hao-jan" | p. 92 |
| "Late Bloomer at the Front of My Garden" | p. 93 |
| "To Send to Tu Fu as a Joke" | p. 93 |
| "Drinking Alone in the Moonlight" (No. 1) | p. 94 |
| "Still Night Thoughts" | p. 94 |
| "Poems in an Old Style" | p. 95 |
| Ch'u Kuang-hsi, "The Streets of Ch'ang-an" | p. 96 |
| Tu Fu, "Spring View" | p. 97 |
| "A Guest Arrives" | p. 97 |
| "Recruiting Officer of Shih-hao" | p. 98 |
| "At the Sky's End, Thinking of Li Po" | p. 98 |
| Chang Chi, "maple Bridge Night Mooring" | p. 100 |
| Ts'en Shen, "A Song of the Running Horse River: Presented on Saying Farewell to the Army Going on Campaign to the West" | p. 101 |
| Ssu-k'ung Shu, "In Illness, Dismissing My Singing Girl" | p. 102 |
| Meng Chiao, "On Failing the Examination" | p. 103 |
| Han Yu, "The Girl of Mount Hua" | p. 103 |
| Hsueh T'ao, "Listening to a Monk Play the Reed Pipes" | p. 105 |
| "Lotus-Gathering Boat" | p. 106 |
| Liu Tsung-yuan, "River Snow" | p. 106 |
| Cold Mountain, [Untitled Poems] | p. 107 |
| Chia Tao, "Looking for a Recluse but Failing to Find Him" | p. 111 |
| Li Shen, "Pitying the Farmer" | p. 111 |
| Li Te-yu, "To Patriarch Sun at Hua-yang Grotto" | p. 112 |
| Li Ho, "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show to My Man Pa" | p. 113 |
| "My Man Pa Replies" | p. 113 |
| "Ravine on a Cold Evening" | p. 113 |
| Autumn Maid Tu, "The Robe of Golden Thread" | p. 114 |
| Li Shang-yin, "Master Chia" | p. 114 |
| P'i Jih-hsiu, "Impromptu on a Hangover" | p. 115 |
| Yu Hsuan-chi, "On a Visit to Ch'ung-chen Taoist Temple I See in the South Hall the List of Successful Candidates in the Imperial Examinations" | p. 116 |
| Mei Yao-ch'en, "Sharing Lodging with Hsieh Shih-hou in the Library of the Hsu Family and Being Much Bothered by the Noise of Rats" | p. 116 |
| "Shih-hou Pointed Out to Me That from Ancient Times There Had Never Been a Poem on the Subject of Lice, and Urged Me to Try Writing One" | p. 117 |
| Wang An-shih, "Bald Mountain" | p. 118 |
| Su Shih, "When Yu-k'o Painted Bamboo" | p. 119 |
| "Reading the Poetry of Meng Chiao" | p. 119 |
| "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" | p. 120 |
| Huang T'ing-chien, "To Go with Shih K'o's Painting of an Old Man Tasting Vinegar" | p. 121 |
| Yang Wan-li, "Watching a Village Festival" | p. 122 |
| "Songs of Depression" (two selections) | p. 122 |
| Lu Yu, "The Merchant's Joy" | p. 123 |
| "Written in a Carefree Mood" | p. 124 |
| "To Show to My Sons" | p. 124 |
| Wen T'ien-hsiang, "Chin-ling Post Station" | p. 125 |
| Chao Meng-fu, "To a Pyrotechnist" | p. 125 |
| Yang Wei-chen, "Mating" | p. 126 |
| Ni Tsan, "Inscribed on a Painting by Myself" | p. 127 |
| Hsu Pen, "Saying Goodbye to a Monk from Japan" | p. 127 |
| Kao Ch'i, "Written on Seeing the Flowers, and Remembering My Daughter" | p. 128 |
| "Silkworm Song of Torchlit Fields" | p. 129 |
| Yang Shih-ch'i, "Night Rain: A Wall Collapses" | p. 129 |
| Shen Chou, "The Taoist Huang Has Died of Alcoholism" | p. 130 |
| Yang Hsun-chi, "Inscribed on the Doors of My Bookshelves" | p. 130 |
| Chu Yun-ming, "A Fan from Korea" | p. 131 |
| Wang Chiu-ssu, "Ballad of Selling a Child" | p. 132 |
| Ho Ching-ming, "Ballad of the Government Granary Clerk" | p. 133 |
| Huang E, [Title Lost] | p. 134 |
| Li K'ai-hsien, "A Parable" | p. 135 |
| "Earthquake" | p. 136 |
| Hsu Wei, "A Buddhist Monk Cut and Burned His Own Flesh to Make the Rains Stop--a Man from His Native Place Asked Me to Write a Poem to Send to Him" | p. 137 |
| "A Kite" | p. 138 |
| Tsung Ch'en, "Song of Selling Flowers" | p. 138 |
| Mo Shih-lung, "Saying Good-bye to a Singing Girl Who Has Decided to Become a Nun" | p. 139 |
| T'ang Hsien-tsu, "Twenty-Two Quatrains on Receiving the Obituary Notice for My Son Shih-ch'u" | p. 139 |
| Yuan Hung-tao, "The 'Slowly, Slowly' Poem" | p. 140 |
| "On Receiving My Letter of Termination" | p. 141 |
| Wu Chia-chi, "The Grain-Barge Wife" | p. 141 |
| Wu Li, "Singing of the Source of Holy Church" | p. 143 |
| Wang Shih-chen, "Medicine" | p. 144 |
| K'ang-hsi, "Lines in Praise of a Self-Chiming Clock" | p. 144 |
| Cheng Hsieh, "Song of Surfing on the Bore" | p. 145 |
| Yuan Mei, "On the Way to Pa-ling" | p. 145 |
| Lyrics and Arias | |
| Attributed to Li Po, "A Suite in the Ch'ing-p'ing Mode" | p. 147 |
| Anonymous, Tune: "Magpie on the Branch"; a Lyric from Tun-huang | p. 149 |
| Liu Yu-hsi, Tune: "Memories of the South"; a Spring Lyric After Po Chu-yi | p. 150 |
| Wen T'ing-yun, Tune: "Deva-Like Barbarian" | p. 150 |
| Wei Chuang, Tune: "The Bodhisattva Foreigner" | p. 151 |
| Ou-yang Chiung, Tune: "Offering Congratulations to the Enlightened Reign" | p. 152 |
| Li Yu, Tune: "The Crow's Nocturnal Cry" | p. 153 |
| Tune: "New Bounty of Royalty" | p. 154 |
| Tune: "Pure Serene Music" | p. 154 |
| Tune: "Memories of the South"; A Reminiscence | p. 155 |
| Liu Yung, Tune: "Bells Ringing in the Rain"; Sadness of Parting | p. 155 |
| Fan Chung-yen, Tune: "Sumuche Dancers" | p. 156 |
| Yen Shu, Tune: "Spring in the Jade House" | p. 157 |
| Ou-yang Hsiu, Tune: "Drunk in Fairyland" | p. 158 |
| Su Shih, Tune: "Partridge Sky"; Written While Banished to Huang-chou | p. 158 |
| Tune: "Fragrance Fills the Courtyard" | p. 159 |
| Tune: "Immortal by the River" | p. 160 |
| Huang T'ing-chien, Tune: "The Courtyard Full of Fragrance"; Tea | p. 160 |
| Tune: "A Thousand Autumns" | p. 161 |
| Ch'in Kuan, Tune: "Sand of Silk-Washing Brook"; A Spring Morning | p. 162 |
| Tune: "Perfumed Garden"; Bidding Adieu | p. 163 |
| Li Chih-yi, Tune: "The Diviner" | p. 163 |
| Chu Tun-ju, Tune: "Nien-nu Is Charming" | p. 164 |
| Li Ch'ing-chao, Tune: "Rouged Lips"; Naivete | p. 165 |
| Tune: "Magnolia Flowers" (short version) | p. 166 |
| Tune: "Fisherman's Pride"; A Dream | p. 166 |
| "A Long Melancholy Tune (Autumn Sorrow)"; Despair | p. 167 |
| Tune: "Spring at Wu Ling"; Spring Ends | p. 168 |
| Hsin Ch'i-chi, Tune: "Spring in the Ch'in Garden" (About to swear off drinking, he warns the wine cup to go away) | p. 169 |
| Tune: "Pure Serene Music"; Rural Life | p. 170 |
| Wu Wen-ying, Tune: "Rouged Lips"; Rain Just Over on the Night of the Lantern Preview | p. 171 |
| Chang Yen, Tune: "Pure Serene Music" | p. 171 |
| Kuan Han-ch'ing, In the Southern Mode, to the Tune of "A Sprig of Flowers"; The Refusal to Get Old | p. 172 |
| Tu Shan-fu, Tune, "Shua Hai-erh"; Country Cousin at the Theater | p. 174 |
| Ma Chih-yuan, Tune: "Heaven-Cleansed Sands"; Autumn Thoughts | p. 176 |
| Chang Yang-hao, [Untitled] | p. 177 |
| Kuan Yun-shih, Tune: "Rapt with Wine, Loudly Singing--Joy in Spring's coming"; My Love | p. 178 |
| Wang Ho-ch'ing, Tune: "Tsui-chung T'ien"; To the Giant Butterfly | p. 179 |
| Tune: "Po Pu-tuan"; Long-Haired Little Dog | p. 179 |
| Tune: "Po Pu-tuan"; Fat Couple | p. 180 |
| Anonymous, Tune: "San-fan Yu-lou Jen" | p. 180 |
| Yang Na, Tune: "Hung Hsiu-hsieh"; To a Flea | p. 181 |
| Anonymous, Tune: "Wu Yeh-erh"; Twitting the Teller of Tall Tales | p. 181 |
| Anonymous, In the Chung Mode, to the Tune of "P'u T'ien Lo" | p. 182 |
| Yun-k'an Tzu, [Untitled] | p. 182 |
| Ali Hsiying, "Lazy Cloud's Nest" 1 and 2 | p. 183 |
| Yang Shen, Tune: "Moon Over West River" | p. 184 |
| Liu Shih, Tune: "Dreaming of Southland"; Thinking of Someone | p. 184 |
| Wu Li, Tune: "Happily Flitting Oriole"; From Music of Harmonious Heaven in Reverent Thanks to the Lord of Heaven | p. 189 |
| Nara Singde, Tune: "As If in a Dream" | p. 189 |
| Wang Kuo-wei, Tune: "Sand of Silk-Washing Brook" | p. 190 |
| Elegies and Rhapsodies | |
| Attributed to Ch'u Yuan, "Heavenly Questions" | p. 192 |
| Chia Yi, "The Owl" | p. 208 |
| Mei Ch'eng, "Seven Stimuli" | p. 211 |
| Ch'eng-kung Sui, "Rhapsody on Whistling" | p. 229 |
| T'ao Ch'ien, "The Return" | p. 235 |
| Su Shih, "Red Cliff Rhapsody" | p. 238 |
| Folk and Folklike Songs, Ballads, and Narrative Verse | |
| Liu Pang, "Song of the Great Wind" | p. 241 |
| Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, "Cock-Phoenix, Hen-Phoenix" | p. 241 |
| Anonymous, "Ground-Thumping Song" | p. 242 |
| Li Yen-nien, "A Song" | p. 243 |
| Attributed to Hsi-chun, "Lost Horizon" | p. 243 |
| Anonymous, "Song of the Viet Boatman" | p. 244 |
| Anonymous, "Mulberry Up the Lane" | p. 245 |
| Anonymous, From the "Nineteen Old Poems" | p. 247 |
| "Green, Green Riverside Grass" | p. 247 |
| Anonymous, "They Fought South of the Wall" | p. 247 |
| Anonymous, "Crows on City Walls"; a Children's Ditty from the Early Years of the Reign of the Later Han Emperor Huan | p. 248 |
| Anonymous or attributed to Ts'ai Yung, "Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole" | p. 249 |
| Ts'ao Ts'ao, "Song on Enduring the Cold" | p. 250 |
| Fu Hsuan, "Pity Me!" | p. 251 |
| Anonymous, "Midnight Songs" | p. 253 |
| Anonymous, "A Peacock Southeast Flew" | p. 255 |
| Pao Chao, "Magic Cinnabar" | p. 265 |
| Pao Ling-hui, "Added to a Letter Sent to a Traveler" | p. 266 |
| Anonymous, "The Ballad of Mulan" | p. 267 |
| Hulu Chin, "Song of the Tolos" | p. 269 |
| Anonymous, "Song of the Breaking of the Willow" | p. 269 |
| Wang Wei, "Army Ballad" | p. 270 |
| Po Chu-yi, "The Song of Lasting Regret" | p. 270 |
| Po Chu-yi and Yuan Chen, "Iranian Whirling Girls" | p. 278 |
| Anonymous, "Poem of Medicine Puns" | p. 281 |
| Yao Chen, "Ballad on the Investigation of a Disaster" | p. 283 |
| Li Mi-an, "The Half-and-Half Song" | p. 284 |
| Feng Meng-lung, "Mountain Songs" | p. 285 |
| Chiu Tsz-yung, "A Lament for Fortune's Frailty" | p. 287 |
| Chin Ho, "Ballad of the Maiden of Lan-ling" | p. 290 |
| Prose | |
| Documents | |
| Anonymous, "The Great Announcement," from the Classic of Documents | p. 301 |
| Wang Pao, "The Contract for a Youth" | p. 304 |
| History | |
| Attributed to Tso Ch'iu-ming, "Two Brothers of Cheng and the Mother Who Doted on the Younger," from The Commentary of Mr. Tso | p. 308 |
| Pan Ku, "The Passing of Kung Sheng," from History of the Han | p. 312 |
| Moral Lessons | |
| Yang Hsiung, Exemplary Sayings, Chapter 2 | p. 316 |
| Pan Chao, Lessons for Women | p. 320 |
| Parallel Prose | |
| Jen Fang, "Memorial of Indictment Against Liu Cheng" | p. 328 |
| Wang Po, Preface to "Ascending the Pavilion of King T'eng in Hung-chou on an Autumn Day for a Parting Feast" | p. 333 |
| Letters | |
| Li Po, "Letter to Han Ching-chou" | p. 342 |
| Tsung Ch'en, "Letter in Reply to Liu Yi-chang" | p. 345 |
| Prefaces and Postfaces | |
| Hsu Shen, Postface to Explanation of Simple and Compound Graphs | p. 348 |
| Wang Hsi-chih, Preface to Collected Poems from the Orchid Pavilion | p. 351 |
| Liu Tsung-yuan, Preface to the "Foolish Brook Poems" | p. 353 |
| Li Ch'ing-chao, Postface to a Catalog on a Collection of Bronze and Stone Inscriptions | p. 355 |
| Discourses, Essays, and Sketches | |
| Hsi K'ang, "Discourse on Nourishing Life" | p. 359 |
| T'ao Ch'ien, "The Peach Blossom Spring" | p. 364 |
| Han Yu, An Explication of "Progress in Learning" | p. 366 |
| Ou-yang Hsiu, "The Three Zithers" | p. 375 |
| "A Record of the Pavilion of an Intoxicated Old Man" | p. 376 |
| Shen Kua, ["On a UFO"], from Brush Talks from Dream Brook | p. 377 |
| Chang Tai, "Liu Ching-t'ing the Storyteller" | p. 378 |
| "Professional Matchmakers," from Dream Memories of West Lake | p. 380 |
| Wei Hsueh-yi, "Account of a Peach-Stone Boat" | p. 382 |
| Lin Ssu-huan, "The Vocal Mimic" | p. 384 |
| Li Yu, "The Arts of Sleeping, Walking, Sitting, and Standing," from The Arts of Living | p. 386 |
| Yuan Mei, "Thoughts upon Student Huang's Borrowing of Books" | p. 390 |
| Travelogues and Scenic Descriptions | |
| Laymen of Mount Lu Associated with Hui-yuan, "A Poem on Wandering at the Stone Gate," with Introduction | p. 392 |
| Yang Hsuan-chih, "The Establishment of the White Horse Temple," from The Record of the Monasteries of Loyang | p. 395 |
| Fan Ch'eng-ta, "A Climb Up Mount Omei," from Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu | p. 397 |
| Chou Mi, "Observing the Tidal Bore," from Reminiscences of Wu-lin | p. 405 |
| Miscellanea | |
| Fan Sheng-chih, Fan Sheng-chih's Book, Chapter 1: "Basic Principles of Farming" | p. 407 |
| Anonymous, "Miscellanies, Secret H," A Fragment | p. 410 |
| Li Shang-yin, Li Shang-yin's Miscellany | p. 412 |
| Anonymous, Lay Student Notations from Tun-huang | p. 425 |
| Ch'u Ching-ch'un, "That Which Is Mandated by Heaven Is Called Nature" | p. 426 |
| Jokes | p. 430 |
| Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs | |
| Ch'en Shou, "The Biography of Hua-t'o," from History of the Three Kingdoms | p. 441 |
| Yeh Meng-te, "Physicians Cannot Raise the Dead" | p. 450 |
| Lu Yu, "The Autobiography of Instructor Lu" | p. 452 |
| Liu Tsung-yuan, "Biography of the Child Ou Chi" | p. 456 |
| P'i Jih-hsiu, "Biography of a Girl Surnamed Chao" | p. 458 |
| Lu Jung, "The Biography of A-liu" | p. 459 |
| Hou Fang-Yu, "The Biography of Actor Ma" | p. 460 |
| Fictional and Fictionalized Biographies and Autobiographies | |
| Han Yu, "The Biography of Fur Point" | p. 463 |
| Lu Kuei-meng, "Biography of the Vagrant of Rivers and Lakes" | p. 466 |
| Fiction | |
| Rhetorical Persuasions and Allegories | |
| Compiled by Liu Hsiang, Intrigues of the Warring States | p. 471 |
| Liu Tsung-yuan, "The Donkey of Ch'ien" | p. 474 |
| Anecdotal Fiction | |
| Liu Yi-ch'ing, A New Account of Tales of the World | p. 476 |
| Tales of the Strange | |
| Attributed to Liu Hsiang, Biographies of Transcendents | p. 479 |
| Kan Pao, Preface to and Tales from Search for the Supernatural | p. 480 |
| P'u Sung-ling, Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio | p. 485 |
| Chi Yun, Sketches from the Cottage for the Contemplation of Subtleties | p. 496 |
| Classical-Language Short Stories | |
| Yuan Chen, "The Story of Ying-ying" | p. 507 |
| Li Kung-tso, "An Account of the Governor of the Southern Branch" | p. 517 |
| Vernacular Short Stories | |
| Anonymous, "The Shrew: Sharp-Tongued Ts'ui-lien" | p. 529 |
| Feng Meng-lung, "The Canary Murders" | p. 551 |
| Novels | |
| Attributed to Wu Ch'eng-en, The Journey to the West, Chapter 7 | p. 566 |
| Anonymous, "Wu Sung Beats the Tiger," from Water Margin, with Commentary by Chin Sheng-t'an | p. 581 |
| Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, "A Burial Mound for Flowers," from Dream of Red Towers | p. 591 |
| Oral and Performing Arts | |
| Prosimetric Narratives | |
| Anonymous, "Transformation Text on Mahamaudgalyayana Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld with Pictures, One Scroll, with Preface" | p. 607 |
| Tung Chieh-yuan, Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance, Chapter 2 | p. 643 |
| Drama | |
| Kuan Han-ch'ing, Injustice to Tou O | p. 673 |
| T'ang Hsien-tsu, The Peony Pavilion, Scene 7 | p. 713 |
| Anonymous, "The Mortal Thoughts of a Nun," from a Popular Drama | p. 721 |
| Principal Chinese Dynasties and Periods | p. 725 |
| Romanization Schemes for Modern Standard Mandarin | p. 727 |
| List of Permissions | p. 732 |
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