The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature

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Victor H. Mair
Columbia University Press, 1994 - 1335 sider

Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.

 

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Divinations and Inscriptions
3
Philosophy Thought and Religion
17
Paws
43
Attributed to Lao Tzu The Classic Book of Integrity and
57
Tsung Chen Song of Selling Flowers 284
97
Criticism and Theory
121
Partridge Sky I Rejoice to Meet a Friend
145
Classical Poetry
149
Mian The HalfandHalf Song
491
Feng Menglung Mountain Songs
492
Chiu Tszyung A Lament for Fortunes Frailty
494
Chin Ho Ballad of the Maiden of Lanling
497
PROSE
505
Anonymous The Great Announcement from the Classic of Documents
507
Wang Pao The Contract for a Youth
510
Attributed to Tso Chiuming Two Brothers of Cheng and the Mother Who Doted on the Younger from The Commen tary of Mr Tso
514

Listening to Gibbons at RockPool Creek
187
Brahmacarin Wang Untitled
190
Wang Changling Silent at Her Window
196
Prefaces and Postfaces
199
Chu Kuanghsi The Streets of Changan
206
Chang Chi Maple Bridge Night Mooring
219
Liu Tsungyüan River Snow
225
Chia Tao Looking for a Recluse but Failing to Find Him
233
Master Chia
240
Hung Mai The Office of the RecordKeeper in Hsiuchou
245
Reading the Poetry of Meng Chiao
250
Wen Tienhsiang Chinling Post Station
259
Hsieh Chin Song of Cursive Calligraphy
270
Ho Chingming Ballad of the Government Granary Clerk
276
Hsü Wei A Buddhist Monk Cut and Burned His Own Flesh
283
Tang Hsientsu TwentyTwo Quatrains on Receiving the Obit
286
Wang Shihchen Composed at the West Wall of Tsouping
292
Lyrics and Arias
300
Thinking of the Imperial Capital
306
Bells Ringing in the Rain Sadness of Parting
314
Calming Windswept Waves
320
The Courtyard Full of Fragrance
326
Niennu Is Charming
333
Immortal at the Riverbank A Reminiscence
341
Rouged Lips Rain Just Over on
347
HeavenCleansed Sands Autumn
353
Anonymous In the Chung Mode to the Tune of Pu Tien Lo
359
Happily Flitting Oriole From Music of Harmo
366
Sand of SilkWashing Brook In Memoriam
367
As If in a Dream
368
Sand of SilkWashing Brook
369
Rouged Lips
370
Elegies and Rhapsodies 148 Attributed to Chü Yüan Heavenly Questions
371
Attributed to Sung Yü The Wind
387
Chia Yi The Owl
389
Ssuma Hsiangju Sir Fantasy
392
Mei Cheng Seven Stimuli
411
Chengkung Sui Rhapsody on Whistling
429
Tao Chien The Return
435
Po Rhymeprose on the Sword Gallery
437
Su Shih Red Cliff Rhapsodies 1 and 2
438
Folk and Folklike Songs Ballads and Narrative Verse 157 Liu Pang Song of the Great Wind
443
Anonymous GroundThumping Song
444
Yennien A Song
445
Attributed to Hsichün Lost Horizon
447
Anonymous Song of the Viet Boatman
448
Anonymous From the Nineteen Old Poems
451
Anonymous They Fought South of the Wall
452
Anonymous Crows on City Walls a Childrens Ditty from the Early Years of the Reign of the Later Han Emporer Huan
453
Anonymous or attributed to Tsai Yung Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole
454
I Watered My Horse at the Long Wall Caves
455
Tsao Tsao Song on Enduring the Cold
456
Fu Hsüan Pity Me
457
Anonymous Midnight Songs
458
Anonymous A Peacock Southeast Flew
462
Pao Chao Magic Cinnabar
472
Going out Through the North Gate of Chi A Ballad
473
Anonymous The Ballad of Mulan
474
Hulü Chin Song of the Tölös
476
Anonymous Song of the Breaking of the Willow
477
Po Chüyi The Song of Lasting Regret
478
Po Chüyi and Yuan Chen Iranian Whirling Girls
485
Anonymous Poem of Medicine Puns
488
Yao Chen Ballad on the Investigation of a Disaster
490
Pan Ku The Passing of Kung Sheng from History of the Han
518
Anonymous Činggis Qahan Subdues the Naiman from The Secret History of the Mongols
521
Moral Lessons 193 Yang Hsiung Exemplary Sayings Chapter 2
530
194 Pan Chao Lessons for Women
534
Parallel Prose 195 Jen Fang Memorial of Indictment Against Liu Cheng
542
Wang Po Preface to Ascending the Pavilion of King Teng in Hungchou on an Autumn Day for a Parting Feast
547
Li Po Letter to Han Chingchou
556
Tsung Chen Letter in Reply to Liu Yichang
559
Graphs
562
and Stone Inscriptions
569
Tao Chien The Peach Blossom Spring
578
Ouyang Hsiu The Three Zithers
589
Wei Hsüehyi Account of a PeachStone Boat
598
Yüan Mei Thoughts upon Student Huangs Borrowing
606
Yang Hsüanchih The Establishment of the White Horse Tem
614
Chou Mi Observing the Tidal Bore from Reminiscences
623
Anonymous Miscellanies Secret H A Fragment
629
Shangyin Li Shangyins Miscellany
631
Anonymous Lay Student Notations from Tunhuang
644
Chü Chingchun That Which Is Mandated by Heaven Is Called Nature
645
Anonymous Three Customs and Ten Sins A Fragment on Fash ions in Cuisine
649
Jokes
658
Biographies Autobiographies and Memoirs 225 Ssuma Chien The Biography of Ching Ko
671
Kuo Hsieh from History of the Former Han
684
Chen Shou The Biography of Huato from History of the Three Kingdoms
688
Yeh Mengte Physicians Cannot Raise the Dead
697
Lu Yü The Autobiography of Instructor Lu
699
Liu Tsungyüan Biography of the Child Ou Chi
702
Pi Jihhsiu Biography of a Girl Surnamed Chao
704
Lu Jung The Biography of Aliu
705
Hou Fangyü The Biography of Actor Ma
707
Shen Fu Six Chapters of a Floating Life Chapters 1 and 3
709
Fictional and Fictionalized Biographies and Autobiographies 235 Han Yü The Biography of Fur Point
747
Lu Kueimeng Biography of the Vagrant of Rivers and Lakes
750
237 Shao Yung Biography of the Gentleman With No Name
751
FICTION
757
Rhetorical Persuasions Parables and Allegories 238 Compiled by Liu Hsiang Intrigues of the Warring States
759
239 Liu Yühsi Discourse on a Thoroughbred
765
Liu Tsungyüan The Donkey of Chien
767
Anecdotal Fiction 241 Liu Yiching A New Account of Tales of the World
768
Tales of the Strange 242 Attributed to Liu Hsiang Biographies of Transcendents
771
Kan Pao Preface to and Tales from Search for the Supernatural
772
Attributed to Tsu Chungchih Ou Chingchih and the Corpse Eater
780
Huanchu Biographies of Transcendents
784
Chi Yün Prefaces to and Tales from Sketches from the Cottage
805
ClassicalLanguage Short Stories
830
Yüan Chen The Story of Yingying
851
Branch
861
Vernacular Short Stories
872
Feng Menglung The Canary Murders
894
Old Nun Chao Plucks
909
Novels
947
Attributed to Wu Chengen The Journey to the West Chapter 7
966
Anonymous Gold Vase Plum Chapter 12
981
Anonymous Wu Sung Fights the Tiger from Water Margin
997
Wu Chingtzu The Scholars Chapter 3
1007
Tsao Hsüehchin A Burial Mound for Flowers and One
1032
Liu Tiehyün The Travels of Lao Tsan Chapters 1 and 2
1072
Anonymous Transformation Text on Mahamaudgalyāyana
1093
Anonymous How Liu Chihyüan Bade Sanniang Goodbye
1134
Anonymous The Story of How the Monk Tripitaka of the Great
1181
Attributed to Cheng Tingyü The Monk Putai and the Charac
1223
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Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese languages and literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many publications are Tun-huang Popular Narratives; Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis; T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China; Tao Te Ching: The Chinese Book of Integrity and the Way; and (with J. P. Mallory) The Tarim Mummies.

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