Introduction: The Origins and Impact of Literati Culture
1. Language and Script / Victor H. Mair
3. Philosophy and Literature in Early China / Michael Puett
4. Thirteen Classics / Paul Rakita Goldin
5. Shih-ching Poetry and Didacticism in Ancient Chinese Literature / Jeffrey Riegel
6. Supernatural / Rania Huntington
7. Wit and Humor / Karin Myhre
8. Proverbs / John S. Rohsenow
9. Buddhist Literature / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer and Victor H. Mair
10. Taoist Heritage / Judith Magee Boltz
11. Women in Literature / Anne Birrell
12. Sao, Fu, Parallel Prose, and Related Genres / Christopher Leigh Connery
13. Poetry from 200 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. / Robert Joe Cutter
14. Poetry of the T'ang Dynasty / Paul W. Kroll
15. Tz'u / Stuart Sargent
16. Sung Dynasty Shih Poetry / Michael A. Fuller
17. Yuan San-ch'u / Wayne Schlepp
18. Mongol-Yuan Classical Verse (Shih) / Richard John Lynn
19. Poetry of the Fourteenth Century / John Timothy Wixted
20. Poetry of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Daniel Bryant
21. Poetry of the Seventeenth Century / Richard John Lynn
22. Poetry of the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries / Daniel Bryant
23. Ch'ing Lyric / David McCraw
24. Modern Poetry / Michelle Yeh
25. Poetry and Painting / Charles Hartman
26. Literary Features of Historical Writing / Stephen Durrant
27. Early Biography / William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
28. Expository Prose / Ronald Egan
29. Records of Anomalies / Hu Ying
30. Travel Literature / James M. Hargett
31. Sketches / James M. Hargett
32. Twentieth-Century Prose / Philip F. C. Williams
33. T'ang Tales / William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
34. Vernacular Stories / Yenna Wu
35. Full-Length Vernacular Fiction / Wai-Yee Li
36. Traditional Vernacular Novels: Some Lesser-Known Works / Daria Berg
37. Later Classical Tale / Allan H. Barr
38. Fiction from the End of the Empire to the Beginning of the Republic (1897-1916) / Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova
39. Twentieth-Century Fiction / Philip F. C. Williams
40. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan During the 1980s and 1990s / Helmut Martin
41. Traditional Dramatic Literature / Wilt L. Idema
42. Twentieth-Century Spoken Drama / Xiaomei Chen
VI. Commentary, Criticism, and Interpretation
43. Rhetoric of Premodern Prose Style / Christoph Harbsmeier
44. Classical Exegesis / Haun Saussy
45. Literary Theory and Criticism / Dore J. Levy
46. Traditional Fiction Commentary / David L. Rolston
VII. Popular and Peripheral Manifestations
47. Balladry and Popular Song / Anne Birrell
48. Tun-huang Literature / Neil Schmid
49. Oral-Formulaic Tradition / Anne E. McLaren
50. Regional Literatures / Mark Bender
51. Ethnic Minority Literature / Mark Bender
52. Translator's Turn: The Birth of Modern Chinese Language and Fiction / Lydia H. Liu
53. Reception of Chinese Literature in Korea / Emanuel Pastreich
54. Reception of Chinese Literature in Japan / Emanuel Pastreich
55. Reception of Chinese Literature in Vietnam / Emanuel Pastreich
Principal Chinese Dynasties and Periods.
