Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. In Memoriam, Shih-Hsiang Chen, 1912-1971 V
3. Contents VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction 1
6. The Shih-ching: Its Generic Significance in Chinese Literary History and Poetics 8
7. The Quest of the Goddess 42
8. Yueh-fu Poetry 69
9. Allusion in the Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien 108
10. Some Literary Qualities of the Lyric (Tz'u) 133
11. Wu Wen-ying's Tz'u: A Modern View 154
12. The Conventions and Craft of Yuan Drama 192
13. Some Concerns and Methods of the Ming Ch'uan-ch'i Drama 220
14. Urban Centers: The Cradle of Popular Fiction 259
15. The Early Chinese Short Story: A Critical Theory in Outline 299
16. The Military Romance 339
17. Index 391