Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of TranslationsJohn Minford, Joseph S. M. Lau Chinese University Press, 2000 - 1176 pages |
Contents
Foreword by Cyril Birch | xli |
About the Editors | lx |
Oracle Bones | 10 |
Bronze Inscriptions | 18 |
Calligraphy | 24 |
Outlines Characters Signs | 31 |
Early Myths and Legends | 37 |
The Northern Lands Beyond the Sea Book 8 of the Book of Hills | 45 |
Six Poems translated by Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi | 512 |
A Rhapsody translated by J R Hightower | 517 |
Further Reading | 540 |
Five Poems translated by Anne Birrell | 546 |
Four Poems translated by Anne Birrell | 556 |
Liu An Prince of Huainan d 122 B C | 571 |
Ling d 74 B C | 582 |
Introduction Craig Fisk | 626 |
The Sage Kings Selections from the Bamboo Annals | 54 |
Further Reading | 66 |
xii The Mallards translated by Robert Payne et al 1947 | 84 |
xix Kuankuan the Ospreys translated by Wailim Yip 1976 | 90 |
GetanShade o the Vine translated by Ezra Pound | 97 |
Caifan Pluck the Quince translated by Ezra Pound | 104 |
Lüyi Green Robe translated by Ezra Pound | 110 |
Caige | 124 |
ZhihuYoung Soldier Thinks of Home translated by Rewi Alley | 130 |
Qingying Buzz Buzz the Blue Flies translated by Burton | 144 |
Eight Ancient Poems from The Fountain of Old Poems translated | 150 |
Book 3 Reign of Duke Zhuang Years | 161 |
Attitudes Toward the Supernatural | 172 |
Philosophy | 183 |
The Analects of Confucius c 551c 479 B C | 192 |
The Way and Its Power Six Chapters translated by Arthur Waley | 202 |
Three Passages translated by David Collie 1828 | 220 |
Ten Passages translated by A C Graham 1960 | 226 |
Further Reading | 234 |
Qu Yuan c 340278 B C | 240 |
V | 259 |
Rhapsodies from the | 267 |
Jia Yi 200168 B C | 278 |
Sima Xiangru 179117 B C attrib | 292 |
Further Reading | 327 |
History of the Former Han | 351 |
Doctors Diviners and Magicians | 359 |
Immortals | 371 |
Further Reading | 381 |
A Sad Song translated by Burton Watson | 406 |
Poets of the Han | 413 |
Liu Fuling Emperor Zhao of Han ?9574 B C | 416 |
Orchid Pavilion | 479 |
Further Reading | 488 |
Nineteen Poems translated by William Acker | 495 |
Strange Tales from the | 651 |
Further Reading | 673 |
Poets of the Early Tang | 677 |
Two Poems translated by Stephen Owen | 688 |
Two Poems translated by Stephen Owen | 694 |
Introduction H C Chang | 701 |
The Hill of the HatchetLeaved Bamboos | 704 |
Further Reading | 719 |
Four Poems translated by David Young | 751 |
Two Versions | 756 |
Further Reading | 763 |
Sixteen Poems translated by Burton Watson | 785 |
Eight Poems translated by Kenneth Rexroth | 796 |
Two Ballads translated by Arthur Cooper | 803 |
Three Versions | 813 |
Three Poems translated by Kenneth Rexroth | 837 |
Four Poems translated by Stephen Owen | 867 |
Twentythree Poems translated by Arthur Waley | 873 |
Record of a Poetic Friendship translated | 894 |
Further Reading | 902 |
Further Reading | 954 |
Poetry of Zen and the Tao | 975 |
Essays of the Tang Dynasty | 989 |
Further Reading | 1017 |
Ballads and Stories from | 1077 |
The Quest of Mulian or The Great Maudgalyāyana Rescues His Mother | 1088 |
Further Reading | 1110 |
Further Reading | 1131 |
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Major Chinese Dynasties and Periods | 1155 |
107 | 1158 |
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