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Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction to the Calligrams Edition Introduction A Certain Predisposition in the Language Origins of the Reversible Poem Period of the Six Dynasties (3rd to 6th centuries)

The Poem on a Tray Su Hui: The Map of the Armillary Sphere The Cosmological Foundations of the Poem A Poem in Colors Three Thousand One Hundred Twenty Poems The Efficacy of the Form The Poem between Heaven and Earth From the Poem to the Legend He Daoqing (5th century) Wang Rong (468–494) Yin Zhongkan (5th century) The Xiao Court

Tang Dynasty (618–907)

Li Shimin: Emperor Taizong (599–649) Anonymous: The Hermit of the South Mountains Anonymous (7th century): The Map on a Hanging Mirror (Panjiantu) Quan Deyu (759–818) and Pan Mengyang (?) Lü Dongbin (798–?) Pi Rixiu (834–883) and Lu Guimeng (?–881)

Song Dynasty (960–1279): Northern Song (960–1127) & Southern Song (1127–1279)

Xu Yin (Five Dynasties) Qian Weizhi (942–1014) Sun Mingfu (992–1057) and Pei Yu (?) Mei Chuang (?) Liu Chang (1019–1068) Kong Pingzhong (11th century) Wang Anshi (1021–1086) Su Dongpo (1036–1101) Qin Guan (1049–1100) Yuwen Xuzhong (1079–1146) Yang Wanli (1127–1206) Zhu Xi (1130–1200)

Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)

Qiu Jun (1418/1421–1495) Wang Shizhen (1526–1590) Tang Xianzu (1550–1616) Li Yang (?) Cao Fengzu (?)

Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)

Wan Shu (1625–1688) Zhang Yude (late 18th century)

Return to the West Appendix: The Ways of Reading Su Hui’s Poem Selected Bibliography