t He m at iC C on t e n t s xiii
2.1.19 Sisterly love in Gan Lirou’s poems 369–
2.1.20 Conjugal love in linked verse 371–
2.1.21 Yearning for the absent beloved in Cai Shen’s “To the Tune
‘Sixteen-Character Song’” 394–2.2 The Beautiful Woman
2.2.1 Compared to flora 16–
2.2.2 As a symbol of moral virtues in Qu Yuan’s “On
Encountering Trouble” 42–
2.2.3 The combination of sensual beauty and moral rectitude^
in a Han yuefu^ poem 97–
2.2.4 The illusion of beauty in Xiao Gang’s “On a Fair Lady
Viewing a Painting” 149–
2.2.5 Sensual beauty and the voyeur’s gaze in Wen Tingyun’s^
“To the Tune ‘On the Water Clock at Night’” 251–
2.2.6 Delightful images of 396–
2.3 The Abandoned Woman
2.3.1 Plaints of an abandoned female lover 13
2.3.2 Her lover compared to a wandering river 24
2.3.3 An outburst of anger by a Han yuefu persona 93–
2.3.4 The representation of a lonely woman in Xie Tiao’s “Jade
Stairs Resentment” 143–
2.3.5 Boudoir lament as a mode evoked in the romantic
poetry of Li Shangyin 190–191, 193–
2.3.6 The soldier’s lonely wife in Jin Changxu’s “Spring
Lament” 204–
2.3.7 The abandoned palace lady Ban Jieyu in Li Bai’s “Lament
of the Jade Stairs” 212
2.3.8 The abandoned palace lady Ban Jieyu in Wang Changling’s
jueju “Autumn Songs of the Hall of Abiding Faith” 213–
2.3.9 A wandering man and an abandoned woman accusing each
other in the anonymous “To the Tune ‘Southern Tune’” 249–
2.3.10 Appropriation of the abandoned woman’s voice by early ci
poets 251
2.3.11 Nature and the emotions of abandonment in Ouyang Xiu’s
[attrib.] “To the Tune ‘Butterflies Lingering over Flowers’” 257–
2.3.12 The interplay of imagined and realistic scenes in Ouyang
Xiu’s [attrib.] “To the Tune ‘Butterflies Lingering over
Flowers’” 257–
2.3.13 An outpouring of sorrow depicted in Li Qingzhao’s “To
the Tune ‘One Beat Followed by Another, a Long Tune’” 273–
2.3.14 Springtime melancholia blended with historical reflections
in Xin Qiji’s “To the Tune ‘Groping for Fish’” 281–
2.3.15 Self-representation of a young widow 372–