How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook by Cai, Zong-qi, Cui, Jie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half title Title Copyright Contents Preface Symbols and Abbreviations 1. Love: The Voice of Men

P01: “Guan, Guan,” Cry the Ospreys (anon.) P02: Willow Branch (Liu Yuxi) P03: Untitled (Li Shangyin) P04: To the Tune “Southern Tune,” No. 1 (anon.) Exercises

2. Love: The Voice of Women

P05: To the Tune “Southern Tune,” No. 2 (anon.) P06: There Is One I Love (anon.) P07: Prolonged Longing (Bai juyi) P08: To the Tune “A Twig of Plum Blossom” (Li Qingzhao) P09: To the Tune “Deeply Drunk in the East Wind” Spring Passions (Xu Zaisi) Exercises

3. Fields and Gardens

P10: Returning to Live on the Farm, No. 1 (Tao Qian) P11: On Drinking Wine, No. 5 (Tao Qian) P12: Visiting My Old Friend’s Farmstead (Meng Haoran) P13: Written on Master Huyin’s Wall, No. 1 (Wang Anshi) Exercises

4. Landscape: Excursions

5. Landscape: Grand Scenes

P18: The Yellow Crane Tower (Cui Hao) P19: Watching the Waterfall of Mount Lu (Li Bai) P20: Four Quatrains, No. 3 (Du Fu) P21: Dreaming Heaven (Li He) P22: A Quatrain on the Spring South of the Yangtze (Du Mu) Exercises

6. Landscape: Chan (Zen) Vision

P23: Written for the Meditation Lodge (Chang Jian) P24: Visiting the Xiangji Temple (Wang Wei) P25: The Deer Fence (Wang Wei) P26: The Lodge in the Bamboo Grove (Wang Wei) P27: Calling-Bird Brook (Wang Wei) Exercises

7. Landscape: Random Sketches

P28: The Dawn of a Spring Day (Meng Haoran) P29: Sitting Alone in the Jmgting Mountain (Li Bai) P30: River Snow (Liu Zongyuan) P31: Drinking on the Lake, No. 1 (Su Shi) P32: A Small Pond (Yang Wanli) P33: To the Tune of “Sky-Clear Sand”: Autumn (Bai Pu) Exercises

8. Landscape: A Source of Wisdom

P34: Climbing Crane Tower (Wang Zhihuan) P35: Departing Baidi in the Morning (Li Bai) P36: Written on the Wall of the West Wood Temple (Su Shi) P37: Two Poems Written After Reading, No. 1 (Zhu Xi) Exercises

9. Parting

P38: Nineteen Old Poems, No. 1 (anon.) P39: A Weicheng Tune (Wang Wei) P40: Sending off Meng Haoran (Li Bai) P41: To Wang Lun (Li Bai) P42: Song of a Traveling Son (Meng Jiao) Exercises

10 Sojourns of the Wandering Men

11. Frontiers and Wars

P48: Songs of Liangzhou, No. 1 (Wang Zhihuan) P49: Following the Army (Wang Changling) P50: Setting Out for the Frontiers (Wang Changling) P51: Two Songs of Liangzhou, No. 1 (Wang Han) P52: Upon Hearing of the Recapture of Henan and Hebei by the Government Army (Du Fu) P53: Crossing the Sea of Loneliness (Wen Tianxiang) Exercises

12. Homesickness

P54: Random Notes Upon Returning to My Hometown (He Zhizhang) P55: On the Double Ninth Festival: Thinking of My Brothers in Shangdong (Wang Wei) P56: Miscellaneous Poems, No. 2 (Wang Wei) P57: Quiet Night Thoughts (Li Bai) P58: Crossing the Sanggan River (Jia Dao) P59: Night Ram: A Poem Sent to the North (Li Shangym) Exercises

13. Plaints of Young Women (I)

P60: Nineteen Old Poems, No. 2 (anon.) P61: Spring Lament (Jin Changxu) P62: Untitled (Li Shangym) P63: To the Tune “On the Water Clock at Night” (Wen Tingyun) P64: To the Tune “Buddha-Like Barbarian” (Wen Tingyun) Exercises

14. Plaints of Young Women (II)

P65: To the Tune “Audience at Golden Gate” (Wei Zhuang) P66: To the Tune “Crows Call at Night” (Li Yu) P67: To the Tune “Butterflies Lingering Over Flowers” (Ouyang Xiu) P68: Spring at Wuling (Li Qingzhao) Exercises

15. Plaints of Palace Ladies

P69: Jade Stairs Resentment (Xie Tiao) P70: Lament of the Jade Stairs (Li Bai) P71: Songs of the Autumn of the Abiding Faith Hall, No. 3 (Wang Changlmg) P72: Autumn Evening (Du Mu) P73: Chang’ e (Li Shangyin) Exercises

16. Depiction of Things: Sensuous, Allegorical, and Personified

P74: In Praise of Pear Blossoms on the Pond (Wang Rong) P75: Brocade Zither (Li Shangyin) P76: Small Plum Tree in a Garden in the Hills, No. 1 (Lin Bu) P77: Plum Blossom (Wang Anshi) P78: Crabapple (Su Shi) P79: A Quatrain on Plum Blossoms (Lu You) Exercises

17. Meditation on History: Famous People

18. Meditation on History: Rise and Fall of Dynasties

P85: Autumn Meditations, No. 8 (Du Fu) P86: Black Clothes Alley (Liu Yuxi) P87: Red Cliff (Du Mu) P88: The Book-Burning Pits (Zhang Jie) P89: To the Tune “Sheep on Mountain Slope”: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass (Zhang Yanghao) Exercises

19. Reflection: In Response to Scenes and Events

P90: A Song on Ascending Youzhou Terrace (Chen Zi’ang) P91: Spring Scene (Du Fu) P92: The Qu River, No. 2 (Du Fu) P93: Climbing High (Du Fu) P94: A Weary Night (Du Fu) P95: The Advent of Autumn (Li He) Exercises

20. Reflection: Remembering Things Past

P96: Dispelling Sorrow (Du Mu) P97: To the Tune “Beautiful Lady Yu” (Li Yu) P98: To the Tune “Sand in Silk-Washing Stream” (Yan Shu) P99: To the Tune “River City” (Su Shi) P100: To the Tune “Phoenix Hairpin” (Lu You) Exercises

List of Literary Issues Discussed List of Entenng-Tone Characters, with Phonetic Transcriptions Character List Answer Key to Unit Exercises