The Columbia History of Chinese Literature Book

	Prolegomenon
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Map of China
	Introduction: The Origins and Impact of Literati Culture	1
1	Foundations
1	Language and Script	19
2	Myth	58
3	Philosophy and Literature in Early China	70
4	The Thirteen Classics	86
5	Shih-ching Poetry and Didacticism in Ancient Chinese Literature	97
6	The Supernatural	110
7	Wit and Humor	132
8	Proverbs	149
9	Buddhist Literature	160
10	Taoist Heritage	173
11	Women in Literature	194
II	Poetry
12	Sao, Fu, Parallel Prose, and Related Genres	223
13	Poetry from 200 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.	248
14	Poetry of the T'ang Dynasty	274
15	Tz'u	314
16	Sung Dynasty Shih Poetry	337
17	Yuan San-ch'u	370
18	Mongol-Yuan Classical Verse (Shih)	383
19	Poetry of the Fourteenth Century	390
20	Poetry of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	399
21	Poetry of the Seventeenth Century	410
22	Poetry of the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries	429
23	Ch'ing Lyric	444
24	Modern Poetry	453
25	Poetry and Painting	466
III	Prose
26	The Literary Features of Historical Writing	493
27	Early Biography	511
28	Expository Prose	527
29	Records of Anomalies	542
30	Travel Literature	555
31	Sketches	560
32	Twentieth-Century Prose	566
IV	Fiction
33	T'ang Tales	579
34	Vernacular Stories	595
35	Full-Length Vernacular Fiction	620
36	Traditional Vernacular Novels: Some Lesser-Known Works	659
37	The Later Classical Tale	675
38	Fiction from the End of the Empire to the Beginning of the Republic (1897-1916)	697
39	Twentieth-Century Fiction	732
40	China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan During the 1980s and 1990s	758
V	Drama
41	Traditional Dramatic Literature	785
42	Twentieth-Century Spoken Drama	848
VI	Commentary, Criticism, and Interpretation
43	The Rhetoric of Premodern Prose Style	881
44	Classical Exegesis	909
45	Literary Theory and Criticism	916
46	Traditional Fiction Commentary	940
VII	Popular and Peripheral Manifestations
47	Balladry and Popular Song	953
48	Tun-huang Literature	964
49	The Oral-Formulaic Tradition	989
50	Regional Literatures	1015
51	Ethnic Minority Literature	1032
52	The Translator's Turn: The Birth of Modern Chinese Language and Fiction	1055
53	The Reception of Chinese Literature in Korea	1067
54	The Reception of Chinese Literature in Japan	1079
55	The Reception of Chinese Literature in Vietnam	1096
	Suggestions for Further Reading	1105
	Principal Chinese Dynasties and Periods	1153
	Romanization Schemes for Modern Standard Mandarin	1155
	Glossary of Terms	1161
	Glossary of Names	1179
	Glossary of Titles	1213
	Index	1241
	Contributors	1335