How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

❀ ❀ ❀

t h e m a t iC C o n t e n t s

1. i n t e l l eC t u a l a nD C u lt u r a l m i l i e u

1.1 Confucianism
1.1.1 Confucian morality preached in Sima Xiangru’s “Fu on the
Imperial Park” 71–
1.1.2 The Confucian cosmic vision in Du Fu’s poetry 162–169, 174–
1.1.3 Chen Zi’ang’s blending of Confucian ethics with
Daoist and Buddhist spirituality 227
1.1.4 Bai Juyi’s promotion of the restoration of Confucian values^
through poetry 237–
1.1.5 Ridicule of Confucian honors and titles in Qiao Ji’s^
“Of Myself ” 340–

1.2 Daoism and Abstruse Learning (Xuanxue)
1.2.1 Laozi’s utopian vision in Tao Qian’s farmstead poems 123
1.2.2 Zhuangzi’s ideas on language and meaning in Tao Qian’s poems 125
1.2.3 Yijing hexagrams as the structural model of Xie Lingyun’s
landscape poems 131–
1.2.4 Yin-yang cosmology and the tonal patterns of regulated
verse 173–
1.2.5 Yin-yang cosmology in Wang Zhihuan’s “Climbing Crane
Tower” 206
1.2.6 Alchemy as content and model in Li Bai’s “A Lu Mountain
Tune: Sent to Minister Lu Xuzhou” 233–
1.2.7 Gender and reclusion 373–
1.2.8 Reclusion and transcendental roaming (see 2.9)

1.3 Buddhism
1.3.1 Buddhist perspectives in Xiao Gang’s poems on things
1 48–149, 150–
1.3.2 Landscape and Buddhist vision in Wang Wei’s “Zhongnan^
Mountain” 177–
1.3.3 Buddhist concepts and vision in Wang Wei’s quatrains 207–
1.3.4 Buddhism and poetry discussed in Su Shi’s “Seeing Off
Canliao” 313–
1.3.5 Buddhist elements in women’s poetry 373–

1.4 Music and Ritual Performances
1.4.1 Folk and court music in the Shijing 13 –