Vignettes from the late Ming : a xiaopin anthology / translated with annotations and an introduction by Yang Ye.
This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-pin, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-pin, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword to "Reflections on The book of documents" ; A parable of urns ; Inscription on the wall of the Wild Crane Belvedere ; The Craggy Gazebo ; The Hsiang-chi Belvedere ; An epitaph for Chillyposy / Kuei Yu-kuang
- Inkslab den ; Bitter bamboo ; A trip to Wei Village ; A short note about my six attendants in retirement ; Inscription on two paintings in my collection ; Inscription on a portrait of Tung-p'o wearing bamboo hat and clogs / Lu Shu-sheng
- To Ma Ts'e-chih ; Foreword to Yeh Tzu-shu's poetry ; Another colophon (On the model script "The seventeenth" in the collection of Minister Chu of the Court of the Imperial Stud) ; A dream / Hsü Wei
- Three fools ; In praise of Liu Hsieh ; A lament for the passing ; Inscription on a portrait of Confucius at the Iris Buddhist Shrine ; Essay : on the mind of a child / Li Chih
- A letter in reply to Li Wei-yin ; To a friend, while staying in the capital ; To a friend, after coming home in retirement / T́́́́ʹu Lung
- Trips to see peach in bloom ; Inscription on Wang Chung-tsun's A history of flowers ; A colophon to A history of flowers ; A colophon to A profile of Yao Pʹing-chung ; Selections from Privacies in the mountains / Chʹen Chi-ju
- Little western paradise ; A trip to Sukhāvatī Temple ; A trip to Yüeh-yang ; Selections from Miscellanea / Yüan Tsung-tao
- First trip to West Lake ; Waiting for the moon : an evening trip to the Six Bridges ; A trip to the Six Bridges after a rain ; Mirror Lake ; A trip to Brimming Well ; A trip to High Beam Bridge ; A biography of the stupid but efficient ones ; Essay : a biography of Hsü Wen-ch'ang / Yüan Hung-tao
- Foreword to The sea of misery ; Shady terrace ; Selections from Wood shavings of daily life / Yüan Chung-tao
- Flower-washing brook ; To Ch'en Chi-ju ; A colophon to my poetry collection ; Colophon to A drinker's manual (four passages) ; Inscription after Yüan Hung-tao's calligraphy ; Inscription on my portrait / Chung Hsing
- A short note about my trips to Tiger HIll ; A short note about my trips to Boulder Lake ; Inscriptions on An album of recumbent travels in Chiang-nan (four passages). Horizontal Pond ; Boulder Lake ; Tiger Hill ; Divinity Cliff / Li Liu-fang
- Inscription on A picture of Solitary Hill on a moonlit night / Li Liu-fang
- A trip to Brimming Well ; A trip to Wisdom Hill and Tin Hill ; Passing by the small ocean ; Shan-hsi Brook / Wang Ssu-jen
- First trip to Black Dragon Pond ; Second trip to Black Dragon Pond ; Third trip to Black Dragon Pond / T'an Yüan-ch'un
- Selections from Dream memories from the T'ao Hut. A night performance at Golden Hill ; Plum blossoms bookroom ; Drinking tea at Pop Min's ; Viewing the snow from the Mid-Lake Gazebo ; Yao Chien-shu's paintings ; Moon at Censer Peak ; Liu Ching-t'ing the storyteller ; West Lake on the fifteenth night of the seventh month ; Wang Yüeh-sheng ; Crab parties ; Lang-hsüan, land of enchantment / Chang Tai
- An epitaph for myself ; Preface to Searching for West Lake in dreams / Chang Tai.