| Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Skeleton Chronology
Introduction
Zhuge Liang (181 — 234)
To Lead out the Army
Tao Qian (365 — 427)
Requiem for Myself
Han Yu (768 — 824)
Address to the Crocodiles of Chaozhou
Goodbye to Penury
Liu Zongyuan (773 — 819)
The Whip Vendor
My First Excursion to West Mountain
The Small Rock Pool West of the Hillock
Lu Guimeng (? — ca. 881)
A Monument to Rustic Temples
Ouyang Xiu (1007 — 1072)
The Old Toper's Pavilion
Su Shi (1037 — 1101)
The Terrace over the Void
Master Table Mountain
Red Cliff: One
Inscription for the Temple of Han Yu at Chaozhou
Su Che (1039 — 1112)
The Pavilion of Elation
Fang Xiaoru (1357 — 1402)
The Mosquito Dialogue
Gui Youguang (1506 — 1571)
My Mother: A Brief Life
The Xiangji Studio
Yuan Hongdao (1568 — 1610)
Tiger Hill
The Rewards of Stupidity
Zhang Dai (1597 — 1684)
The Full Moon Festival at the West Lake
Wang Yuesheng
Liu Jingting: Storyteller
The Jades of Yangzhou
Li Yu (1611 — 1680)
Pleasant Diversions: Judging Beauty
Pleasant Diversions: Accomplishments
Pleasant Diversions: Literacy
Pleasant Diversions: Clothes
Fang Bao (1668 — 1749)
Life in Prison
Yuan Mei (1716 — 1797)
Thoughts on Master Huang's Book Borrowing
Lun Xun (1881 — 1936)
Three Summer Pests
The Evolution of the Male Sex
Ah Jin
Confucius in Modern China
Zhou Zuoren (1885 — 1967)
Relentless Rain
Reading in the Lavatory
On 'Passing the Itch'
The Ageing of Ghosts
In Praise of Mutes
Xia Mianzun (1886 — 1946)
The Ornamental Iron Mountain
Winter at White Horse Lake
Ye Shengtao (1894 — 1988)
Three Kinds of Boat
My Own Patch of Green
Intellectuals
Feng Zikai (1898 — 1975)
Eating Melon Seeds
Autumn
Bombs in Yishan
Yu Dafu (1896 — 1945)
Village School and Academy
The Winter Scene in Jiangnan
Zhu Ziqing (1898 — 1948)
The View from the Rear
Traces of Wenzhou
The Lotus Pond by Moonlight
Liang Shih-ch'iu (1902 — 1987)
Sickness
Haircut
Listening to Plays
Liang Yuchun (1906 — 1932)
On the Road
Well-meant Words
Lu Li (1908 — 1942)
A Temple Lodging
Yang Jiang (1911 — )
The Art of Listening
Cloak of Invisibility
He Qifang (1912 — 1979)
Elegy
Ch'i Chun (1917 — )
Chignon
Eileen Chang (1920 — 1995)
The Religion of the Chinese
A Beating
Wang Ting-chün (1925 — )
The Last Word in Beauty and Ugliness
Footprints
Yu Kwang-chung (1928 — )
Thus Friends Absent Speak
My Four Hypothetical Enemies
Zongpu (1928 — )
The Call of the Ruins
Koarnhak Tarn (1934 — )
The Countryside of the Past
Today's Countryside
Huang Chunming (1939 — )
We Can't Bring Back the Past
Waiting for a Flower's Name
Yu Qiuyu (1946 — )
Shanghai People
Zhang Xingjian (1959 — )
Goodwives
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