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1 online resource (xxx, 741 pages) : map |
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Translations from the Asian classics |
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Translations from the Asian classics.
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A Late Shang Divination Record -- A Bronze Inscription of the Western Chou -- The Book of Changes of the Chou People -- An Early Commentary on the Classic of Changes -- Kuan Tzu: "Duties of the Student" / Attributed to Kuan Chung -- Confucian Analects: Book 2 / Anonymous -- Mencius: "Bull Mountain" and "Fish and Bear's Paws" / Meng K'o -- Chuang Tzu: Chapter 17 and other passages / Chuang Chou -- The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way: Tao te ching / Attributed to Lao Tzu -- Lieh Tzu: "The Stupid Old Man Who Moved a Mountain" / Attributed to Lieh Yu-k'ou -- Abhidharma-mahavibhasa-sastra: Chapter 99 "The Sins of Mahadeva" / Translated by Hsuan-tsang -- Preface to Literary Selections / Hsiao T'ung -- Preface to Record of the Classification of Old Painters / Hsieh Ho -- Ts'ang-lang's Discussions of Poetry: "An Analysis of Poetry" / Yen Yu -- "Poems on Poetry, No. 30" / Yuan Hao-wen -- Classic of Odes / Anonymous -- "Cockfight" / Liu Chen -- "Songs of My Soul" / Juan Chi -- "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" / Kuo P'u -- "Poems After Drinking Wine" (No. 5) / T'ao Ch'ien -- "On Reading the Mountains and Seas Classic" / T'ao Ch'ien -- "On My Way from South Mountain to North Mountain, I Glance at the Scenery from the Lake" / Hsieh Ling-yun -- "Harmonizing with a Poem by Left Assistant Yu Kao-chih Requesting Sick Leave" / Shen Yueh -- "Listening to Gibbons at Rock-Pool Creek" / Shen Yueh -- "Describing a Dream for Someone" / Wang Seng-Ju -- "Spring Day" / Yu Chien-wu -- "A Pheasant on His Morning Flight" / Hsiao Kang -- [Untitled] / Brahmacarin Wang -- "On the Cicada: In Prison" / Lo Pin-wang -- "Written Impromptu upon Returning to My Hometown" / Ho Chih-chang -- "Poems of Reflection on the Vicissitudes of Life" / Ch'en Tzu-ang -- "Poems of Reflection on the Vicissitudes of Life / Chang Chiu-ling -- "Climbing the Stork Pavilion" / Wang Chih-huan -- "Seeking Out Master Chan on Incense Mountain" / Meng Hao-jan -- "Spring Dawn" / Meng Hao-jan -- "Passing Seven-League Rapids" / Meng Hao-jan -- "Silent at Her Window" / Wang Ch'ang-ling -- "Climbing Pien-chueh Temple" / Wang Wei -- "Second Song for the Worship of the Goddess at Yu Mountain: 'Bidding the Goddess Farewell'" / Wang Wei -- "Deer Enclosure" / Wang Wei -- "To Meng Hao-jan" / Li Po -- "Late Bloomer at the Front of My Garden" / Li Po -- "To Send to Tu Fu as a Joke" / Li Po -- "Drinking Alone in the Moonlight" (No.1) / Li Po -- "Still Night Thoughts" / Li Po -- "Poems in an Old Style" / Li Po -- "The Streets of Ch'ang-an" / Ch'u Kuang-hsi -- "Spring View" / Tu Fu -- "A Guest Arrives" / Tu Fu -- "Recruiting Officer of Shih-hao" / Tu Fu -- "At the Sky's End, Thinking of Li Po" / Tu Fu -- "Maple Bridge Night Mooring" / Chang Chi -- "A Song of the Running Horse River: Presented on Saying Farewell to the Army Going on Campaign to the West" / Ts'en Shen -- "In Illness, Dismissing My Singing Girl" / Ssu-k'ung Shu -- "On Failing the Examination" / Meng Chiao -- "The Girl of Mount Hua" / Han Yu -- "Listening to a Monk Play the Reed Pipes" / Hsueh T'ao -- "Lotus-Gathering Boat" / Hsueh T'ao -- "River Boat" / Liu Tsung-yuan -- [Untitled Poems] / Cold Mountain -- "Looking for a Recluse but Failing to Find Him" / Chia Tao -- "Pitying the Farmer" / Li Shen -- "To Patriarch Sun at Hua-yang Grotto" / Li Te-yu -- "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show to My Man Pa" / Li Ho -- "My Man Pa Replies" / Li Ho -- "Ravine on a Cold Evening" / Li Ho -- "The Robe of Golden Thread" / Autumn Maid Tu -- "Master Chia" / Li Shang-yin -- "Impromptu on a Hangover" / P'i Jih-hsiu -- "On a Visit to Ch'ung-chen Taoist Temple I See in the South Hall the List of Successful Candidates in the Imperial Examinations" / Yu Hsuan-chi -- "Sharing Lodging with Hsieh Shih-hou in the Library of the Hsu Family and Being Much Bothered by the Noise of Rats" / Mei Yao-ch'en -- "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" / Mei Yao-ch'en -- "Bald Mountain" / Wang An-shih -- "When Yu-k'o Painted Bamboo" / Su Shih -- "Reading the Poetry of Meng Chiao" / Su Shih -- "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" / Su Shih -- "To Go with Shih K'o's Painting of an Old Man Tasting Vinegar" / Huang T'ing-chien -- "Watching a Village Festival" / Yang Wan-li -- "Songs of Depression" (two selections) / Yang Wan-li -- "The Merchant's Joy" / Lu Yu -- "Written in a Carefree Mood" / Lu Yu -- "To Show to My Sons" / Lu Yu -- "Chin-ling Post Station" / Wen T'ien-hsiang -- "To a Pyrotechnist" / Chao Meng-fu -- "Mating" / Yang Wei-chen -- "Inscribed on a Painting by Myself" / Ni Tsan -- "Saying Goodbye to a Monk from Japan" / Hsu Pen -- "Written on Seeing the Flowers, and Remembering My Daughter" / Kao Ch'i -- "Silkworm Song of Torchlit Fields" / Kao Ch'i -- "Night Rain: A Wall Collapses" / Yang Shih-ch'i -- "Teh Taoist Huang Has Died of Alcoholism" / Shen Chou -- "Inscribed on the Doors of My Bookshelves" / Yang Hsun-chi -- "A Fan from Korea" / Chu Yun-ming -- "Ballad of Selling a Child" / Wang Chiu-ssu -- "Ballad of the Government Granary Clerk" / Ho Ching-ming -- [Title Lost] / Huang E -- "A Parable" / Li K'ai-hsien -- "Earthquake" / Li K'ai-hsien -- "A Buddist 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" / Hsu Wei -- "A Kite" / Hsu Wei -- "Song of Selling Flowers" / Tsung Ch'en -- "Saying Good-bye to a Singing Girl Who Has Decided to Become a Nun" / Mo Shih-lung -- "Twenty-Two Quatrains on Recieving the Obituary Notice for My Son Shih-ch'u" / T'an Hsien-tsu -- "The 'Slowly, Slowly' Poem" / Yuan Hung-tao -- On Receiving My Letter of Termination" / Yuan Hung-tao -- "The Grain-Barge Wife" / Wu Chia-chi -- "Singing of the Source of Holy Church" / Wu Li -- "Medicine" / Wang Shih-chen -- "Lines in Praise of a Self-Chiming Clock" / K'ang-hsi -- "Song of Surfing on the Bore" / Cheng Hsieh -- "On the Way of Pa-ling" / Yuan Mei |
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"A Suite in the Ch'ing-p'ing Mode" / Attributed to Li Po -- Tune: "Magpie on the Branch" ; a Lyric from Tun-huang / Anonymous -- Tune: " -- Tune: "Memories of the South" ; A Spring Lyric After Po Chu-yi / Liu Yu-hsi -- Tune: "Deva-Like Barbarian" / Wen T'ing-yun -- Tune: "The Bodhisattva Foreigner" / Wei Chuang -- Tune: "Offering Congratulations to the Enlightened Reign" / Ou-yang Chiung -- Tune: "The Crow's Nocturnal Cry" / Li Yu -- Tune: "New Bounty of Royalty" / Li Yu -- Tune: "Pure Serene Music" / Li Yu -- Tune: "Memories of the South" ; A Reminiscence / Li Yu -- Tune: "Bells Ringing in the Rain" ; Sadness of Parting / Liu Yung -- Tune: "Sumuche Dancers" / Fan Chung-yen -- Tune: "Spring in the Jade House" / Yen Shu -- Tune: "Drunk in Fairyland" / Ou-yang Hsiu -- Tune: "Partridge Sky" ; Written While Banished to Huang-chou / Su Shih -- Tune: "Fragrance Fills the Courtyard" / Su Shih -- Tune: "Immortal by the River" / Su Shih -- Tune: "The Courtyard Full of Fragrance" ; Tea / Huang T'ing-chien -- Tune: "A Thousand Autumns" / Huang T'ing-chien -- Tune: "Sand of Silk-Washing Brook" ; A Spring Morning / Ch'in Kuan -- Tune: "Perfumed Garden" ; Bidding Adieu / Ch'in Kuan -- Tune: "The Diviner" / Li Chih-yi -- Tune: "Nien-nu Is Charming" / Chu Tun-ju -- Tune: "Rouged Lips" ; Naivete / Li Ch'ing-chao -- Tune: "Magnolia Flowers" (short version) / Li Ch'ing-chao -- Tune: "Fisherman's Pride" ; A Dream / Li Ch'ing-chao -- "A Long Melancholy Tune (Autumn Sorrow)" ; Despair / Li Ch'ing-chao -- Tune:"Spring at Wu Ling" ; Spring Ends / Li Ch'ing-chao -- Tune: "Spring in the Ch'in Garden" (About to swear off drinking, he warns the wine cup to go away) / Hsin Ch'i-chi -- Tune:"Pure Serene Music" ; Rural Life / Hsin Ch'i-chi -- Tune: "Rouged Lips" ; Rain Just Over on the Night of the Lantern Preview / Wu Wen-ying -- Tune: "Pure Serene Music" / Chang Yen -- In the Southern Mode, to the Tune of "A Sprig of Flowers" ; The Refusal to Get Old / Kuan Han-ch'ing -- Tune, "Shua Hai-erh" ; Country Cousin at the Theater / Tu Shan-fu -- Tune:"Heaven-Cleansed Sands" ; Autumn Thoughts / Ma Chih-yuan -- [Untitled] / Chang Yang-hao -- Tune: "Rapt with Wine, Loudly Singing: Joy in Spring's coming" ; My Love / Kuan Yun-shih -- Tune: "Tsui-chung T'ien"; To the Giant Butterfly / Wang Ho-ch'ing -- Tune: "Po Pu-tuan" ; Long Haired Little Dog / Wang Ho-ch'ing -- Tune: "Po Pu-tuan" ; Fat Couple / Wang Ho-ch'ing -- Tune: "San-fan Yu-lou Jen" / Anonymous -- Tune: "Hung Hsiu-hsieh" ; To a Flea / Yang Na -- Tune: "Wu Yeh-erh" ; Twitting the Teller of Tall Tales / Anonymous -- In the Chung Mode, to the Rune of 'P'u T'ien Lo" / Anonymous -- [Untitled] / Yun-k'an Tzu -- "Lazy Cloud's Nest" 1 and 2 / Ali Hsiying -- Tune: "Moon Over West River" / Yang Shen -- Tune: "Dreaming of Southland" ; Thinking of Someone / Liu Shih -- Tune: "Happily Flitting Oriole" ; From Music of Harmonious Heaven in Reverent Thanks to the Lord of Heaven / Wu Li -- Tune: "As If in a Dream" / Nara Singde -- Tune: "Sand of Silk-Washing Brook" / Wang Kuo-wei -- "Heavenly Questions" / Attributed to Ch'u Yuan -- "The Owl" / Chia Yi -- "Seven Stimuli" / Mei Ch'eng -- "Rhapsody on Whistling" / Ch'en-kung Sui -- "The Return" / T'ao Ch'ien -- "Red Cliff Rhapsody" / Su Shih -- "Song of the Great Wind" / Liu Pang -- "Cock-Phoenix, Hen-Phoenix" / Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju -- "Ground-Thumping Song" / Anonymous -- "A Song" / Li Yen-nien -- "Lost Horizon" / Attributed to Hsi-chun -- "Song of the Viet Boatman" / Anonymous -- "Mulberry Up the Lane" / Anonymous -- from the "Nineteen Old Poems" / Anonymous -- "Green, Green Riverside Grass" / Anonymous -- "They Fought South of the Wall" / Anonymous -- "Crows on City Walls" ; a Children's Ditty from the Early Years of the Reign of the Later Han Emperor Huan / Anonymous -- "Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole" / Anonymous or Attributed to Ts'ai Yung -- "Song on Enduring the Cold" / Ts'ao Ts'ao -- "Pity Me!" / Fu Hsuan -- "Midnight Songs" / Anonymous -- "A Peacock Southeast Flew" / Anonymous -- "Magic Cinnabar" / Pao Chao -- "Added to a Letter Sent to a Traveler" / Pao Ling-hui -- "The Ballad of Mulan" / Anonymous -- "Song of the Tolos" / Hulu Chin -- "Song of the Breaking of the Willow" / Anonymous -- "Army Ballad" / Wang Wei -- "The Song of Lasting Regret" / Po Chu-yi -- "Iranian Whirling Girls" / Po Chu-yi and Yuan Chen -- "Poem of Medicine Puns" / Anonymous -- "Ballad on the Investigation of a Disaster" / Yao Chen -- "The Half-and-Half Song" / Li Mi-an -- "Mountain Songs" / Feng Meng-lung -- "A Lament for Fortune's Frailty / Chiu Tsz-yung -- "Ballad of the Maiden of Lan-ling" / Chin Ho -- "The Great Announcement," from the Classic of Documents / Anonymous -- "The Contract for a Youth" / Wang Pao -- "Two Brothers of Cheng and the Mother Who Doted on the Younger" from The Commentary of Mr. Tso / Attributed to Tso Ch'iu-ming -- "The Passing of King Sheng," From History of the Han / Pan Ku -- Exemplary Sayings: Chapter 2 / Yang Hsiung -- Lessons For Women / Pan Chao -- "Memorial of Indictment Against Liu Cheng" / Jen Fang -- Preface to "Ascending the Pavilion to King T'eng in Hung-chou on an Autumn Day for a Parting Feast" / Wang Po -- "Letter to Han Ching-chou" / Li Po -- "Letter in Reply to Liu Yi-chang" / Tsung Ch'en -- Postface to Explanation of Simple and Compound Graphs / Hsu Shen -- Preface to Collected Poems from the Orchid Pavilion / Wang Hsi-chin -- Preface to "Foolish Brook Poems" / Hsi K'ang -- Postface to a Catalog on a Collection of Bronze and Stone Inscriptions / Li Ch'ing-chao |
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"Discourse on Nourishing Life" / Hsi K'ang -- "The Peach Blossom Spring" / T'ao Ch'ien -- An Explication of "Progress in Learning" / Han Yu -- "The Three Zithers" / Ou-yang Hsiu -- "A Record of the Pavilion of an Intoxicated Old Man" / Ou-yang Hsiu -- ["On a UFO"], from Brush Talks from Dream Brook / Shen Kua -- "Liu Ching-t'ing the Storyteller" / Chang Tai -- "Professional Matchmakers," from Dream Memories of West Lake / Chang Tai -- "Account of A Peach-Stone Boat" / Wei Hsueh-yi -- "The Vocal Mimic" / Lin Ssu-huan -- "The Arts of Sleeping, Walking, Sitting, and Standing" from The Arts of Living / Li Yu -- "Thoughts upon Student Huang's Borrowing of Books" / Yuan Mei -- "A Poem on Wandering at the Stone Gate," with Introduciton / Laymen of Mount Lu Associated with Hui-yuan -- "The Establishment of the White Horse Temple," from The Record of the Monastaries of Loyang / Yang Hsuan-chih -- "A Climb Up Mount Omei," from Diary of a Bot Trip to Wu / Fan Ch'eng-ta -- "Observing the Tidal Bore," from Reminiscences of Wu-lin / Chou Mi -- Fan Sheng-chih's Book, Chapter 1: "Basic Principles of Farming" / Fan Shen-chih -- "Miscellanies, Secret H," A Frgament / Anonymous -- Li Shang-yin's Micellany / Li Shang-yin -- Lay Student Notations from Tun-huang / Anonymous -- "That Which Is Mandates by Heaven Is Called Nature" / Ch'u Ching-ch'un -- Jokes -- "The Biography of Hua-t'o," from History of the Three Kingdoms" / Che'n Shou -- "Physicians Cannot Raise the Dead" / Yeh Mang-te -- "The Autobiography of Instructor Lu" / Lu Yu -- "Biography of the Child Ou Chi" / Liu Tsung-yuan -- "Biography of a Girl Surnamed Chao" / P'i Jih-hsiu -- "The Biography of A-liu" / Lu Jung -- "The Biography of Actor Ma" / Hou Fang-Yu -- "The Biography of Fur Point" / Han Yu -- "Biography of the Vagrant of Rivers and Lakes" / Lu Kuie-meng -- Intrigues of the Warring States / Compiled by Liu Hsiang -- "The Donkey of Ch'ien" / Liu Tsung-yuan -- A New Account of Tales of the World / Liu Yi-ch'ing -- Biographies of Transcendents / Attributed to Liy Hsiang -- Preface to and Tales from Search for the Supernatural / Kan Pao -- Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio / P'u Sung-ling -- Sketches from the Cottage for the Contemplation of Subtleties / Chi Yun -- "The Story of Ying-ying" / Yuan Chen -- "An Account of the Govenor of the Southern Branch" / Li Kung-tso -- "The Shrew: Sharp-Tongued Ts'ui-lien" / Anonymous -- "The Canary Murders" / Feng Meng-lung -- The Journey to the West, Chapter 7 / Attributed to Wu Ch'eng-en -- "Wu Sung Beats the Tiger," from Water Margin, with commentary by Chin Sheng-t'an / Anonymous -- "A Burial Mound for Flowers," from Dream of Red Towers / Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in -- "Transformation Text on Mahamaudgalyayana Rescuing His Mother from the Underworld with Pictures, One Scroll, with Preface" / Anonymous -- Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance, Chapter 2 / Tung Chieh-yuan -- Injustice to Tou O / Kuan Han-ch'ing -- The Peony Pavilion, Scene 7 / T'ang Hsien-tsu -- "The Mortal Thoughts of a Nun," from a Popular Drama / Anonymous |
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pt. 1: Foundations and interpretations -- pt. 2: Verse -- pt. 3: Prose -- pt. 4: Fiction -- pt. 5: Oral and performing arts |
| Summary |
With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature, retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, putry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ([p. xxvii]-xxviii) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Translations into English
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
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Chinese literature
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Chinese literature
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Translations
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Chinese literature.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mair, Victor H., 1943-
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| ISBN |
0231505620 |
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9780231505628 |
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