The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature by Mair, Victor H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Editorial Board Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Bibliographical Note Acknowledgments Map of the Provinces of China Part I. Foundations and Interpretations

Divinations and Inscriptions

1. A Late Shang Divination Record 2. A Bronze Inscription of the Western Chou 3. The Book of Changes of the Chou People 4. An Early Commentary on the Classic of Changes

Philosophy, Thought, and Religion

5. Kuan Tzu 6. Confucian Analects 7. Mencius 8. Chuang Tzu 9. The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way: Tao te ching 10. Lieh Tzu 11. Abhidharma-mahāvibhāsā-śāstra

Criticism and Theory

12. Literary Selections 13. Record of the Classification of Old Painters 14. Ts’ang-lang’s Discussions of Poetry 15. Poems on Poetry, No. 30

Part II. Verse

Classical Poetry

16. Classic of Odes 17. Cockfight 18. Songs of My Soul 19. Poem on the Wandering Immortal 20. Poems After Drinking Wine (No. 5)

On Reading the Mountains and Seas Classic

21. On My Way from South Mountain to North Mountain, I Glance at the Scenery from the Lake 22. Harmonizing with a Poem by Left Assistant Yü Kao-chih Requesting Sick Leave

Listening to Gibbons at Rock-Pool Creek

23. Describing a Dream for Someone 24. Spring Day 25. A Pheasant on His Morning Flight 26. Untitled 27. On the Cicada: In Prison 28. Written Impromptu upon Returning to My Hometown 29. Poems of Reflection on the Vicissitudes of Life 30. Poems of Reflection on the Vicissitudes of Life 31. Climbing the Stork Pavilion 32. Seeking Out Master Chan on Incense Mountain

Spring Dawn Passing Seven-League Rapids

33. Silent at Her Window 34. Climbing Pien-chüeh Temple

Second Song for the Worship of the Goddess at Yü Mountain: ‘Bidding the Goddess Farewell”’ Deer Enclosure

35. To Meng Hao-jan

Late Bloomer at the Front of My Garden To Send to Tu Fu as a Joke Drinking Alone in the Moonlight Still Night Thoughts Poems in an Old Style

36. The Streets of Ch’ang-an 37. Spring View

A Guest Arrives Recruiting Officer of Shih-hao At the Sky’s End, Thinking of Li Po

38. Maple Bridge Night Mooring 39. A Song of the Running Horse River: Presented on Saying Farewell to the Army Going on Campaign to the West 40. In Illness, Dismissing My Singing Girl 41. On Failing the Examination 42. The Girl of Mount Hua 43. Two Poems by the Most Eminent Woman Poet of the T’ang Period

Listening to a Monk Play the Reed Pipes Lotus-Gathering Boat

44. River Snow 45. Untitled Poems 46. Looking for a Recluse but Failing to Find Him 47. Pitying the Farmer 48. To Patriarch Sun at Hua-yang Grotto 49. At Ch’ang-ku, Reading: To Show to My Man Pa

My Man Pa Replies Ravine on a Cold Evening

50. The Robe of Golden Thread 51. Master Chia 52. Impromptu on a Hangover 53. On a Visit to Ch’ung-chen Taoist Temple I See in the South Hall the List of Successful Candidates in the Imperial Examinations 54. Sharing Lodging with Hsieh Shih-hou in the Library of the Hsü Family and Being Much Bothered by the Noise of Rats

Shih-hou Pointed Out to Me That from Ancient Times There Had Never Been a Poem on the Subject of Lice, and Urged Me to Try Writing One

55. Bald Mountain 56. When Yü-k’o Painted Bamboo

Reading the Poetry of Meng Chiao Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu

57. To Go with Shih K’o’s Painting of an Old Man Tasting Vinegar 58. Watching a Village Festival

Songs of Depression

59. The Merchant’s Joy

Written in a Carefree Mood To Show to My Sons

60. Chin-ling Post Station 61. To a Pyrotechnist 62. Mating 63. Inscribed on a Painting by Myself 64. Saying Goodbye to a Monk from Japan 65. Written on Seeing the Flowers, and Remembering My Daughter

Silkworm Song of Torchlit Fields

66. Night Rain: A Wall Collapses 67. The Taoist Huang Has Died of Alcoholism 68. Inscribed on the Doors of My Bookshelves 69. A Fan from Korea 70. Ballad of Selling a Child 71. Ballad of the Government Granary Clerk 72. Title Lost 73. A Parable

Earthquake

74. A Buddhist Monk Cut and Burned His Own Flesh to Make the Rains Stop — a Man from His Native Place Asked Me to Write a Poem to Send to Him

A Kite

75. Song of Selling Flowers 76. Saying Good-bye to a Singing Girl Who Has Decided to Become a Nun 77. Twenty-Two Quatrains on Receiving the Obituary Notice for My Son Shih-ch’ü 78. The ‘Slowly, Slowly’ Poem

On Receiving My Letter of Termination

79. The Grain-Barge Wife 80. Singing of the Source of Holy Church 81. Medicine 82. Lines in Praise of a Self-Chiming Clock 83. Song of Surfing on the Bore 84. On the Way to Pa-ling

Lyrics and Arias

85. A Suite in the Ch’ing-p’ing Mode 86. A Lyric from Tun-huang 87. Tune: “Memories of the South” A Spring Lyric After Po Chü-yi 88. Tune: “Deva-Like Barbarian” 89. Tune: “The Bodhisattva Foreigner” 90. Tune: “Offering Congratulations to the Enlightened Reign” 91. Tune: “The Crow’s Nocturnal Cry”

Tune: “New Bounty of Royalty” Tune: “Pure Serene Music” Tune: “Memories of the South” A Reminiscence

92. Tune: “Bells Ringing in the Rain; Sadness of Parting” 93. Tune: “Sumuche Dancers” 94. Tune: “Spring in the Jade House” 95. Tune: “Drunk in Fairyland” 96. Tune: “Partridge Sky” Written While Banished to Huang-chou

Tune: “Fragrance Fills the Courtyard” Tune: “Immortal by the River”

97. Tune: “The Courtyard Full of Fragrance” Tea

Tune: “A Thousand Autumns”

98. Tune: “Sand of Silk-Washing Brook” A Spring Morning

Tune: “Perfumed Garden” Bidding Adieu

99. Tune: “The Diviner 100. Tune: “Nien-nu Is Charming 101. Tune: “Rouged Lips” Na’ivete

Tune: “Magnolia Flowers” (short version) Tune: “Fisherman’s Pride” A Dream A Long Melancholy Tune (Autumn Sorrow) Despair Tune: “Spring at Wu Ling” Spring Ends

102. Tune: “Spring in the Ch’in Garden” (About to swear off drinking, he warns the wine cup to go away)

Tune: “Pure Serene Music” Rural Life

103. Tune: “Rouged Lips; Rain Just Over on the Night of the Lantern Preview” 104. Tune: “Pure Serene Music” 105. In the Southern Mode, to the Tune of “A Sprig of Flowers” The Refusal to Get Old 106. Tune: “Shua Hai-erh” Country Cousin at the Theater 107. Tune: “Heaven-Cleansed Sands” Autumn Thoughts 108. Untitled 109. Tune: “Rapt with Wine, Loudly Singing —Joy in Spring’s coming” My Love 110. Tune: “Tsui-chung T’ien” To the Giant Butterfly

Tune: “Po Pu-tuan” Long-Haired Little Dog Tune: “Po Pu-tuan” Fat Couple

111. Tune: “San-fan Yü-lou Jen” 112. Tune: “Hung Hsiu-hsieh” To a Flea 113. Tune: “Wu Yeh-erh” Twitting the Teller of Tall Tales 114. In the Chung Mode, to the Tune of “P’u T’ien Lo” 115. Untitled 116. Lazy Cloud’s Nest 1 and 2 117. Tune: “Moon Over West River” 118. Tune: “Dreaming of Southland” Thinking of Someone 119. Tune: “Happily Flitting Oriole” 120. Tune: “As If in a Dream” 121. Tune: “Sand of Silk-Washing Brook”

Elegies and Rhapsodies

122. Heavenly Questions 123. The Owl 124. Seven Stimuli 125. Rhapsody on Whistling 126. The Return 127. Red Cliff Rhapsody

Folk and Folklike Songs, Ballads, and Narrative Verse

128. Song of the Great Wind 129. Cock-Phoenix, Hen-Phoenix 130. Ground-Thumping Song 131. A Song 132. Lost Horizon 133. Song of the Viet Boatman 134. Mulberry Up the Lane 135. From the “Nineteen Old Poems” Green, Green Riverside Grass

136. They Fought South of the Wall 137. Crows on City Walls; a Children’s Ditty from the Early Years of the Reign of the Later Han Emperor Huan 138. Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole 139. Song on Enduring the Cold 140. Pity Me! 141. Midnight Songs 142. A Peacock Southeast Flew 143. Magic Cinnabar 144. Added to a Letter Sent to a Traveler 145. The Ballad of Mulan 146. Song of the Tölös 147. Song of the Breaking of the Willow 148. Army Ballad 149. The Song of Lasting Regret 150. Iranian Whirling Girls 151. Poem of Medicine Puns 152. Ballad on the Investigation of a Disaster 153. The Half-and-Half Song 154. Mountain Songs 155. A Lament for Fortune’s Frailty 156. Ballad of the Maiden of Lan-ling

Part III. Prose

Documents

157. The Great Announcement 158. The Contract for a Youth

History

159. Two Brothers of Cheng and the Mother Who Doted on the Younger 160. The Passing of Kung Sheng

Moral Lessons

161. Exemplary Sayings 162. Lessons for Women

Parallel Prose

163. Memorial of Indictment Against Liu Cheng 164. Preface to “Ascending the Pavilion of King T’eng in Hung-chou on an Autumn Day for a Parting Feast”

Letters

165. Letter to Han Ching-chou 166. Letter in Reply to Liu Yi-chang

Prefaces and Postfaces

167. Hsü Shen, Postface to Explanation of Simple and Compound Graphs 168. Wang Hsi-chih, Preface to Collected Poems from the Orchid Pavilion 169. Preface to the “Foolish Brook Poems” 170. Li Ch’ing-chao, Postface to a Catalog on a Collection of Bronze and Stone Inscriptions

Discourses, Essays, and Sketches

171. Discourse on Nourishing Life 172. The Peach Blossom Spring 173. An Explication of “Progress in Learning” 174. The Three Zithers

A Record of the Pavilion of an Intoxicated Old Man

175. Brush Talks from Dream Brook 176. Liu Ching-t’ing the Storyteller

Professional Matchmakers

177. Account of a Peach-Stone Boat 178. The Vocal Mimic 179. The Arts of Sleeping, Walking, Sitting, and Standing 180. Thoughts upon Student Huang’s Borrowing of Books

Travelogues and Scenic Descriptions

181. A Poem on Wandering at the Stone Gate, with Introduction 182. The Establishment of the White Horse Temple 183. A Climb Up Mount Omei 184. Observing the Tidal Bore

Miscellanea

185. Fan Sheng-chih’s Book 186. Miscellanies, Secret H 187. Li Shang-yin’s Miscellany 188. Lay Student Notations from Tun-huang 189. That Which Is Mandated by Heaven Is Called Nature 190. Jokes

Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs

191. The Biography of Hua-t’o 192. Physicians Cannot Raise the Dead 193. The Autobiography of Instructor Lu 194. Biography of the Child Ou Chi 195. Biography of a Girl Surnamed Chao 196. The Biography of A-liu 197. The Biography of Actor Ma

Fictional and Fictionalized Biographies and Autobiographies

198. The Biography of Fur Point 199. Biography of the Vagrant of Rivers and Lakes

Part IV. Fiction

Rhetorical Persuasions and Allegories

200. Liu Hsiang, Intrigues of the Warring States 201. The Donkey of Ch’ien

Anecdotal Fiction

202. A New Account of Tales of the World

Tales of the Strange

203. Biographies of Transcendents 204. Search for the Supernatural 205. Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio 206. A Chi Yün Sampler: Sketches from the Cottage for the Contemplation of Subtleties

Classical-Language Short Stories

207. The Story of Ying-ying 208. An Account of the Governor of the Southern Branch

Vernacular Short Stories

209. The Shrew: Sharp-Tongued Ts’ui-lien 210. The Canary Murders

Novels

211. The Journey to the West 212. Wu Sung Beats the Tiger 213. A Burial Mound for Flowers

Part V. Oral and Performing Arts

Prosimetric Narratives

214. Transformation Text on Mahāmaudgalyāyana Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld with Pictures, One Scroll, with Preface 215. Master Tung’s Western Chamber Romance

Drama

216. Injustice to Tou O 217. The Peony Pavilion 218. The Mortal Thoughts of a Nun

Principal Chinese Dynasties and Periods Romanization Schemes for Modern Standard Mandarin List of Permissions Series List

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