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2.4 Eulogy and Admonition
2.4.1 A young woman’s warning to her lover not to come too close 18–
2.4.2 Praise of King Wen’s exploits 30–
2.4.3 Qu Yuan’s admonition to King Huai 43, 44, 46
2.4.4 An epideictic depiction of an imperial park by Sima Xiangru 61–
2.4.5 Admonition to Emperor Wu of the Han in a fu poem by Sima
Xiangru 71–
2.4.6 A hymn to the Grand Unity in the Han yuefu corpus 88–
2.4.7 The evocation of Shanglin Park in Du Fu’s “Autumn
Meditations” 186–
2.5 Hardship and Injustice
2.5.1 A return from traveling but to a different woman 23–
2.5.2 Protest against social injustice in Qu Yuan’s “On Encountering
Trouble” 44, 46
2.5.3 Hardship caused by one’s uprightness in an unjust world 46
2.5.4 Poems of social protest in the Han yuefu^ corpus 90, 91, 98
2.5.5 Social protest in Du Fu’s “Three Quatrains” 216–
2.5.6 Social critique in Chen Zi’ang’s “Ganyu” 226
2.5.7 Social critique in Bai Juyi’s poems 237–
2.5.8 Poetic witness to hardship and injustice 360–
2.5.9 The parodic style in Li Yu’s “Recording Disorder” 362–
2.5.10 Wang Duanshu’s narrative of her plight during the Manchu^
conquest 364–
2.5.11 Gan Lirou’s narration of widowhood 372–
2.5.12 Wen Tianxiang’s lamentation over the ruined country 391–
2.6 The Wandering Man
2.6.1 Brooding over separation and aging in the “Nineteen Old
Poems” 104–
2.6.2 Human transience and carpe diem in the “Nineteen Old
Poems” 106–
2.6.3 The poet in exile in Du Fu’s “Autumn Meditations” 186–
2.6.4 Meeting a neighbor on the road in Wang Wei’s
“Miscellaneous Poems” 205–
2.6.5 The homesick soldier in Wang Changling’s “Following
the Army” 213
2.6.6 Reflections on solitude 230–231, 239
2.6.7 A wandering man and an abandoned woman accusing
each other in the anonymous “To the Tune ‘Southern Tune’” 249–
2.6.8 The monologue of a homesick wanderer in Liu Yong’s
“To the Tune ‘Eight Beats of a Ganzhou Song’” 264–
2.6.9 Moments of intense perception and reflection in Ma
Zhiyuan’s “Autumn Thoughts” 334–