From the Book - First paperback edition.
Early collections : the oral tradition (c. 15th century B.C.E. to 4th century C.E.)
The book of songs (c. 15th to 6th century B.C.E.)
Tao Te Ching (c. 6th century B.C.E.)
The songs of Chʻu (c. 3rd century B.C.E.)
Music-bureau folk-songs (c. 2nd to 1st centuries B.C.E.
Nineteen ancient-style poems (c. 1st to 2nd centuries C.E.)
Lady Midnight songs of the four seasons (c. 4th century C.E.)
Su Hui (4th century C.E.)
Hsieh Ling-Yün (385 to 433)
Tʻang Dynasty I : the great renaissance (c. 700 to 800)
Meng Hao-Jan (689 to 740)
Cold mountain (Han Shan) (c. 7th to 9th centuries)
Wei Ying-Wu (c. 737 to 792)
Tʻang Dynasty II : experimental alternatives (c. 800 to 875)
Li Shang-Yin (c. 813 to 858)
Yü Hsüan-Chi (c. 840 to 868)
Sung Dynasty : the mainstream renewed (c. 1000 to 1225)
Mei Yao-Chʻen (1002 to 1060)
Wang An-Shih (1021 to 1086)
Su Tung-Pʻo (1037 to 1101)
Li Chʻing-Chao (c. 1084 to 1150)
Yang Wan-Li (1127 to 1206).
