Thematic Contents
A Note on How to Use This Anthology
Acknowledgments
Major Chinese Dynasties
List of Symbols
Introduction: Major Aspects of Chinese Poetry
Zong-qi Cai
Part 1 Pre-Qin Times
1. Tetrasyllabic Shi Poetry: The Book of Poetry (Shijing)
William H. Nienhauser
2. Sao Poetry: The Lyrics of Chu (Chuci)
Fusheng Wu
Part 2 The Han Dynasty
3. Fu Poetry: An Ancient-Style Rhapsody (Gufu)
David R. Knechtges
4. Shi Poetry: Music Bureau Poems (Yuefu)
Jui-lung Su
5. Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: The "Nineteen Old Poems"
Zong-qi Cai
Part 3 The Six Dynasties
6. Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape and Farmstead Poems
Wendy Swartz
7. Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: New Topics
Xiaofei Tian
Part 4 The Tang Dynasty
8. Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse (Wuyan Lüshi)
Zong-qi Cai
9. Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Heptasyllabic Regulated Verse (Qiyan Lüshi)
Robert Ashmore
10. Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Quatrains (Jueju)
Charles Egan
11. Ancient-Style Shi Poetry: A Revival
Paula Varsano
Part 5 The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty
12. Ci Poetry: Short Song Lyrics (Xiaoling)
Maija Bell Samei
13. Ci Poetry: Long Song Lyrics (Manci)
Xinda Lian
14. Ci Poetry: Long Song Lyrics on Objects (Yongwu Ci)
Shuen-fu Lin
15. Shi Poetry: Ancient and Recent Styles
Ronald Egan
Part 6 The Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties
16. Qu Poetry: Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty
Xinda Lian
17. Shi Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Grace S. Fong
18. A Synthesis: Rhythm, Syntax, and Vision of Chinese Poetry
Zong-qi Cai
Phonetic Transcriptions of Entering-Tone Characters
Abbreviations of Primary Texts
Contributors
Glossary-Index