Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Poets of the Seventeenth Century
Ch'ien Ch'ien-Yi (1582-1664)
Wu Wei-Yeh (1609-1672)
Chin Jen-Jui (1610?-1661)
Huang Tsung-Hsi (1610-1695)
Ku Yen-Wu (1613-1682)
Sung Wan (1614-1673)
Yu T'ung (1618-1704)
Wu Chia-Chi (1618-1684
Liu Shih (1618-1664)
Hsu Ts'an (fl. 1650)
Shih Jun-Chang (1619-1683)
Wang Fu-Chih (1619-1692)
Ch'en Wei-Sung (1626-1682)
Chu Yi-Tsun (1629-1709)
Ch'u Ta-Chun (1630-1696)
P'eng Sun-Yu (1631-1700)
Yun Shou-P'ing (1633-1690
Wang Shih-Chen (1634-1711)
Ts'ao Chen-Chi (1634-?)
Wu Wen (1644-1704)
Hung Sheng (1645-1704)
Cha Shen-Hsing (1650-1727)
Hsuan-Yeh (1654-1722)
Singde (1655-1685)
Chao Chih-Hsin (1662-1744)

Part II: Poets of the Eighteenth Century
Shen Te-Ch'ien (1673-1769)
Li E (1692-1752)
Cheng Hsieh (1693-1765)
Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
Chiang Shih-Ch'uan (1725-1785)
Chao Yi (1727-1814)
Yao Nai (1732-1815)
Hung Liang-Chi (1746-1809)
Wu Hsi-Ch'i (1746-1818)
Li Chien (1747-1799)
Huang Ching-Jen (1749-1783)
Wang Ts'ai-Wei (1753-1776)
Sung Hsiang (1756?-1826)
Chang Hui-Yen (1761-1802)
Chang Wen-T'ao (1764-1814)
Shu Wei (1765-1816)

Part III: Poets of the Nineteenth Century
Kung Tzu-Chen (1792-1841)
Wei Yuan (1794-1857)
Hsiang Hung-Tso (1798-1835)
Ho Shao-Chi (1799-1873)
Ku T'ai-Ch'ing (1799-1876?)
Wu Tsao (fl. 1840)
Cheng Chen (1806-1864)
Chiang Ch'un-Lin (1818-1868)
Chin Ho (1819-1885)
Chiang Shis (fl. ca. 1861)
Li Tz'u-Ming (1830-1894)
Wang K'ai-Yun (1833-1916)
Chuang Yu (?-1878)
Fan Tseng-Hsiang (1846-1931)
Huang Tsun-Hsien (1848-1905)
Ch'en Pao-Shen (1848-1935)
Wang P'eng-Yun (1849-1904)
Ching An (1851-1912)
Ch'en San-Li (1852-1937)
Wen T'ing-Shin (1856-1904)
Cheng Wen-Cho (1856-1918)
Chu Hsiao-Tsang (1857-1931)
K'ang Yu-Wei (1858-1927)
Yi Shun-Ting (1858-1920)
K'uang Chou-yi (1859-1926)
Cheng Hsiao-Hsu (1860-1938)
T'an Ssu-t'ung (1865-1898)
Hsueh Shao-Hui (1866-1911)
Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao (1873-1939)
Ch'iu Chin (1877-1904)
Wang Kuo-Wei (1877-1927)

Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Tune Titles

Reviews

" ... the most comprehensive book of translation of this period in any Western language." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association " ... a welcome addition to the repository of translated Chinese poetry... highly readable." World Literature Today " ... a mega-project ... an impressive achievement of scholarship." Journal of Asian Studies " ... an outstanding anthology of Ch'ing poetry ... It must be recommended whole-heartedly to students and teachers alike." Eugen Feifel, Monumenta Serica