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Italic page numbers refer to the section in this anthology featuring a writer’s works.
- Bacon, Francis, xxxiii
- bamboo, 13, 32, 40, 59, 97–98, 109
- bamboo shoots (as food), 13, 19, 40, 97, 112
- biography (life sketch), xvi, xxv, xxvii, 23
- Birch, Cyril, 132
- Birthday of the Flowers (Flowers Day Festival), 34, 49, 115, 120
- Bloom, Harold, xiv
- Blue Castle Mountains (Ch’ing-ch’eng-shan), 37, 117
- The Book of Changes (I-ching), 100, 114
- The Book of Chou Officialdom (Chou-li), 122
- The Book of Documents (Shu-ching), xxv, 4–5, 109, 114
- The Book of Music (Yüeh-ching), 114
- The Book of Rites (Li-chi), xv, 111, 114
- The Book of Songs (Shih-ching), 114
- book printing, xxiii
- Boulder Lake (Shih Hu), 71–72, 124
- Bridge of Ten Thousand Li (Wan-li Ch’iao), 63, 123
- Brimming Well (Man Ching), 49, 76, 120, 126
- Broken Bridge (Tuan Ch’iao), 48, 94–95, 120
- brushwork. See fine brushwork
- Buddha (Siddhartha), 79, 98, 127, 131
- Buddhism, xviii, 22, 25–26, 36, 39, 58, 60, 62, 98, 100, 116, 122, 132
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de, xxvi
- calligraphy, 12, 20, 40, 55, 67, 69, 75, 95, 100, 110, 112
- Chan-kuo ts’e. See Intrigues of the Warring States
- Chang Chün, 120
- Chang Hua, 121, 131
- Chang Huai-ming, xvii
- Chang Ju-lin, 100, 133
- Chang Kung-fu, 48, 120
- Chang Ta-fu, xxvii
- Chang Tai, xvii, xxvii–xxviii, 23, 46, 75, 86–103, 119, 121, 130–35
- Chang Yao-fang, 100, 133
- Chang Yüan-pien, 55, 86, 121
- Ch’ang-an, xviii, 31–32, 58, 115, 122, 132
- Ch’ang-hsing County, 3, 130
- Ch’ang-shu County, 69
- Chao, 15, 111, 134
- Chao, Chia-ying Yeh, 108
- Chao-ch’ing, 110
- Chaves, Jonathan, xxi, xxxi, xxxiii, 46
- Chekiang, xxviii, 18, 29, 75, 86, 110, 115, 118, 121, 126–27, 130
- Chen-chiang, 87, 118, 129
- Chen, Yu-shih, xxx
- Ch’en Chi-ju, xviii, xxii, xxiv–xxvii, xxix, 11, 33–40, 65, 75, 100, 107, 117, 120, 123, 129
- Ch’en Chung-tzu, 132
- Ch’en Shao-t’ang, 108
- Ch’en Wan-i, xvii, 108
- Ch’en Wang-tao, xxix
- Cheng Ch’ao-tsung, xviii, xxii
- Cheng Chen-to, xxvii
- Cheng Hsieh, 18–19
- Ch’eng Chia-sui, 71–74, 124
- Ch’eng Hao, xxix, 113
- Ch’eng I, xxix, 113
- Ch’eng-tsu (Yung-lo) of the Ming, Emperor, xxiii
- Ch’eng-tu, 63, 123
- chess, Chinese (wei-ch’i; go), xxiii, 29, 75, 99
- Chesterton, G. K., xxxiii
- Ch’i Pai-shih, 19
- Ch’i Piao-chia, xxvii, 102, 134
- Chia-ting County, 6, 69, 124
- Chiang Chieh, 108
- Chiang-ling, 68
- Chiang-nan, xvi, xxiv, 13–14, 30, 69, 72, 110, 118, 134–35
- Chiang Shih-ch’üan, 33
- Chien-chou, 103, 135
- Chien-wen of the Chin, Emperor (Ssu-ma Yü), 121
- Ch’ien Ch’ien-i, xxi, 4, 41, 57, 62, 69–70, 81, 108
- Ch’ien Chung-shu, 63
- Ch’ien Mu, xv
- Chin p’ing mei. See Golden Lotus
- Chin-shu. See History of the Chin
- Ch’in, First Emperor of the. See First Emperor of the Ch’in
- Ch’in-ching. See Classic of Birds
- Ch’in-huai River, 30, 82, 114, 128
- Ch’in-p’u County, 29
- Ching-chou, 45
- Ching-k’ou, 40, 118
- Ching-ling County, 62, 81, 123
- Ching-ling School, xxi–xxii, xxviii–xxix, 57, 62–63, 81, 86
- Ching-t’ing, Mount, 98, 132
- The Ch’ing-ming Festival along the River, xxiii
- Ch’ing-p’u County, 29
- Cho-lu, 101, 134
- Cho Wen-chün, 77, 126
- Chou, Chih-p’ing, xxi, xxxi, 47, 57, 107
- Chou-li. See The Book of Chou Officialdom
- Chou Pang-yen, xxviii
- Chou Tso-jen, xxix–xxx
- Chou Tun-i, 113
- Christianity, 60
- Chu Hsi, xxix, 113
- Chu-ko Liang, 9, 64, 110, 123
- Ch’u, 57, 123, 132–33
- ch’ü. See northern drama; individual arias
- ch’uan-ch’i. See romance
- Chuang-tzu (Chuang Chou), xv, 13, 109, 135
- Chuang-tzu, xv, 7, 109, 110, 119, 133, 135
- Ch’un-ch’iu. See The Spring and Autumn Annals
- Ch’un-yü K’un, 75, 124
- Chung Ch’in-li, 16
- Chung Hsing, xxi–xxii, xxv–xxviii, 34, 57, 62–68, 81, 84, 86, 123
- Classic of Birds (Ch’in-ching), 121
- Cold Food Day, 48, 120
- colophons, xxiv–xxv
- A Commentary on the Water Classic (Shui-ching chu), xvi, xxiv, 46 Confucianism, xxix, 22–23, 26, 36, 62, 113–14, 116
- Confucius, xv, xxxiv, 24–26, 64, 66–67, 111, 113, 123, 134
- crab (as food), 96–97
- Fan Ch’eng-ta, 124
- Fang Chao-ying, xxxiv, 108
- Favor Hill (Hui-shan). See Wisdom Hill
- Fei I, 123
- Fei-shui, Battle of, 66, 124
- Feng Meng-lung, xxiii
- feng-shui. See geomancy
- fine brushwork (kung-pi), 16, 111
- First Emperor of the Ch’in, 9, 68, 115, 122
- Five Lakes, 37, 117
- Five Sacred Mountains (Wu Yüeh), 15, 111
- Flowers Day Festival. See Birthday of the Flowers
- The Four Books (Ssu shu), 100, 113
- Four Masters of Calligraphy of the Sung, 110
- Four Masters of Chia-ting, 124
- Frodsham, J. D., 130
- fu. See rhapsody
- Fu-hsi (Hsi-huang), 25, 113
- Fu-ts’ai of Wu, King, 125
- Fukien, 22, 60, 62
- Han-fei-tzu (and the book Han-fei-tzu), xv, 132–33
- Han Huang, 16, 111
- Han Shih-chung, 87, 129
- Han-shu. See History of the Han
- Han Yü, xx, xxviii, 4, 16, 54, 108, 112, 116, 121
- Hangchow (Ch’ien-t’ang; Wu-lin), 40, 43, 48, 69, 72, 94, 100, 117–18, 125, 129
- Hargett, James M., xxiv
- Hazelton, Keith, xxxv
- Hazlitt, William, xxxiii
- height-ascending, 71–72, 124–25
- Hemingway, Ernest, 63
- Heng-shan, Mount (Hopei), 111
- Heng-shan, Mount (Hunan), 111
- High Beam Bridge (Kao-liang-ch’iao), 42, 50–51, 121
- Hightower, J. R., 132
- Historical Records (Shih-chi), xvi, 110, 116, 123–24
- History of the Chin (Chin-shu), 110
- History of the Han (Han-shu), xvi
- History of the Ming (Ming-shih), xxxiii
- History of the Northern Dynasties (Pei-shih), 111
- Ho Chih-chang, 49, 120
- Ho Ching-ming, xix
- Ho Wen-chuan, 47, 119
- Honan, 22, 111
- Hopei, 111, 134
- Horse Saddle Hill (Ma-an-shan), 6
- Hsi-hsiang chi. See The Western Chamber
- Hsi-huang. See Fu-hsi
- Hsi K’ang, 132
- Hsi Shih (Hsi-tzu), 37, 74, 101, 117, 125, 133
- Hsi-tsung (T’ien-ch’i) of the Ming, Emperor, 69
- Hsia Ch’ang, 7, 109
- Hsia Hsien-ch’un, 108
- Hsiang Ssu-yao, xx
- Hsiang Yü, 101, 133
- hsiao-p’in. See vignettes
- hsiao-p’in-wen. See vignettes: modern
- Hsiao T’ung (Prince Chao-ming of the Liang), 114
- Hsiao-wu-ti of the Chin, Emperor, 124
- Hsieh An, 66, 124, 129
- Hsieh Ling-yün, 92, 130
- Hsieh T’iao, 132
- Hsien-tsung (Ch’eng-hua) of the Ming, Emperor, 130
- Hsü Wei (Hsü Wen-ch’ang), xxi, xxvi–xxvii, xxix, xxxi, 18–21, 53–56, 86–87, 101, 108, 112, 121, 133
- Hsüan-fu Prefecture, 18, 112
- Hsüan-tsung (Hsüan-te) of the Ming, Emperor, xiii, 130
- Hsüan-tsung of the T’ang, Emperor, 77, 115, 126, 132, 134
- Hu I-ch’eng, 108
- Hu-kuang, 22, 41, 62, 81
- Hu Tsung-hsien, 18, 54–55, 121
- Hua-ch’ing Palace, 32, 115
- Hua-shan, Mount, 111
- Hua-t’ing, 11
- Hua-t’ing, Mount, 7
- Huang-chou Prefecture, xvii
- Huang K’ai-hua, 108
- Huang Kung-wang, 69
- Huang-ti (Yellow Emperor), 134
- Huang T’ing-chien, xxv, 59, 108
- Huang Tsung-hsi, 4
- Hucker, Charles O., xxxv
- Hummel, Arthur W., xxxiv, 108
- Hunan, 41, 111, 118–19
- Hung K’uan, 83, 128
- Hung Kuo, 12, 110
- Hung Ming-shui, xxxi
- Hupei, xvii, 41, 118–19
- Kaifeng, 109
- Kao-tsu of the Han, Emperor (Liu Pang), 133
- Kao-tsung (Ch’ien-lung) of the Ch’ing, Emperor, xiii, xxiii, 116
- Keng-sang Ch’u, 7
- Kiangsi, 113, 130
- Kiangsu, 3, 109–10, 114–15, 118, 126, 130
- Korea (Rooster Woods; Shilla), 45, 119
- Kou-chien of Yüeh, King, 126
- Ku shih. See The Nineteen Old Poems
- Kua-ts’ang, Mount, 78, 126
- Kuan-hsien County (Kuan-k’ou), 63, 123
- Kuei Chuang, 4
- Kuei Yu-kuang, xx–xxi, xxv–xxvi, xxviii, 3–10, 108, 133
- K’uei-chou, 64, 123
- Kumārajīva, xviii
- K’un-shan County, 3, 6, 117
- Kung-an County, 41, 61
- Kung-an School, xxi–xxii, xxix, 29, 41, 46–47, 57, 63
- kung-pi. See fine brushwork
- Kung-sun Shu, 123
- K’un-shan, Smaller Mount, See Smaller Mount Kunshan
- K’ung Shang-jen, 130
- Kwangsi, 100
- Kwangtung, 100, 110
- Kweichow, 62
- Lai Ming, 108
- Lamb, Charles, xxxiii
- Lao-tzu (Lao-tan; Li Erh), 7, 109, 123
- Last Five Masters, xxii, 29
- Later Seven Masters, xix, xxi–xxii, 46, 114
- Leng-chieh, Mount, 72
- Li Ch’ao-wei, 119
- Li-chi. See The Book of Rites
- Li Chih, xxi–xxii, xxix, xxxi–xxxii, 22–28, 46, 57, 61, 113
- Li Ho, 100, 133
- Li, Lady, 37, 117
- Li Liu-fang, xxii, 69–74
- Li Ma-tou. See Ricci, Matteo
- Li Meng-yang, xix
- Li Pai-yao, 23, 112
- Li P’an-lung, xix, xxi
- Li Po, xx, xxxiv, 29, 49, 66, 100, 102, 120, 124, 132, 134
- Li Shang-yin, 133
- Li Tao-yüan, xvi, xxiv, 46
- Liang Hung, 101, 133
- Liang I-ch’eng, 108
- Lien P’o, 101, 134
- Lin-hai County, 92, 127, 130
- Lin, Yutang, xxv–xxvi, xxix–xxx, xxxiii, 29, 34, 87, 107–8
- Ling Meng-ch’u, xxiii
- Liu Ching-t’ing, 92–93, 130
- Liu-chou, xxiv
- Liu Chün (Liu Hsiao-piao), 107
- Liu Hsieh, 24–25, 113
- Liu I-ch’ing, 107
- Liu, James J. Y., xxxiii
- Liu Kuo, 5, 109
- Liu Ling, 131
- Liu Pei, 9, 110, 116
- Liu Ta-chieh, xxvii
- Liu T’an, 54, 121
- Liu Tsung-yüan, xvi, xxiv, 46
- Lou Chien, 124
- Lou Shih-te, 132–33
- Lu-kou Bridge, 42, 118
- Lu-shan, Mount, 91–92, 130, 132
- Lu Shu-sheng, xxiv, xxvi, 11–17
- Lu Yu, 117
- Lu Yün-lung, 108
- Lü Pu-wei, 125
- Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals (Lü-shih ch’un-ch’iu), 125
- Lun-yü. See The Analects
- lung. See dragon
- Lung-chung, 9, 110
- Ma-ch’eng, 22, 113
- Ma Ts’e-chih, 19, 112
- Ma Yüan, 37, 117
- Mair, Victor H., xxxi, 87
- Mao, Lake, 40, 118
- Mao K’un, xx, 128
- Mao Yü-ch’ang, 83, 128
- Mao Yüan-i, 82–84, 128
- Margouliès, G., xxx
- Mather, Richard B., 107
- Mei Fu, 101, 134
- Mencius, xv, xxxiv, 28, 113
- Meng Chia, 125
- Meng Kuang, 133
- Mi-lou (labyrinth), 32, 115
- Mid-Autumn Festival, 70, 72–73, 87, 124
- Mid-Year Festival, 93–95, 131
- Min Hsien (Min Wen-shui), 88–89, 96, 129
- Mirror Lake (Chien Hu), 49, 120
- Miscellaneous Flowers Sūtra, 60
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, xxiii, 108–9
- Mu-kung of the Ch’in, Duke, 134
- Nan-hsiang, 69
- Nanking (Chien-k’ang; Chin-ling), 3–4, 22, 57, 62, 77, 82, 88, 90, 92, 95, 107, 109, 114, 128–31
- Neo-Confucianism, xv, xxix, 113
- A New Account of Tales of the World (Shih-shuo hsin-yü), xvi, xviii, 12, 107, 110, 118, 122, 124–25, 127–28, 131
- New Cultural Movement, xxix
- New History of the T’ang (Hsin T’ang-shu), 132
- Ni Tsan, 88, 129
- Nienhauser, William H., Jr., xxiv, xxxiv
- Nine Painter Friends, 69
- The Nineteen Old Poems (Ku shih shih-chiu shou), 28, 114
- Ning-po, 29
- northern drama (tsa-chü), xiii, 28, 114
- pa-ku wen. See eight-legged essay
- Pai-li Hsi, 101, 134
- painting, 16, 18–19, 33, 40, 69–70, 72, 74–75, 90–91, 95, 111–12
- Pan Ku, xvi
- Paper, Jordan D., xxx
- Pater, Walter, xxxiii
- Peach Blossom Fan (T’ao-hua shan), 130
- Pei-ku Hill (Pei-ku-shan), 87
- P’ei Tu, 68, 124
- Peking, 3, 16, 22, 29–31, 50, 58, 60, 69, 75–76, 81, 109, 111, 115, 118, 120, 122
- pi-chi. See sketches
- Pien Ho, 101, 133–34
- Po Chü-i, 41, 45, 119, 126
- Po I, 134
- poetry (shih), xiii–xv, xxviii, 18–20, 29, 38, 58, 65–66, 69, 74, 98, 114
- Pollard, David E., xxix
- portrait, 5, 68
- Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, xviii
- prefaces, xxiv–xxv
- Prince of Lu, 75, 133
- prompt-books (yüan-pen), 28, 114
- prose (wen), xv, xviii–xix, xxiv, xxviii, xxx, 4, 28, 54, 65–66
- Proust, Marcel, xxviii
- san-ch’ü. See individual arias
- The Sayings of Mencius (Meng-tzu), 28, 113
- Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, 23, 131–32
- Seventh Evening, 82, 84–85, 128
- Sha-shih, 59
- Shan T’ao, 132
- Shan-yin County, 18, 53, 75, 127
- Shang Chou-tso, 102, 134
- Shang-yü, 127
- Shansi, 111
- Shantung, 62, 111, 129
- Shao-hsing Prefecture, 18, 75, 127
- She-chou, 110
- Shen-tsung (Wan-li) of the Ming, Emperor, 11
- Sheng-hsien, 127
- shih. See poetry
- Shih-chi. See Historical Records
- Shih-ching. See The Book of Songs
- Shih Ch’ung, 99, 132
- Shih kuei. See Destination of Poetry
- Shih Nai-an, 114
- Shih-shuo hsin-yü. See A New Account of Tales of the World
- Shih-tsung (Chia-ching) of the Ming, Emperor, 3, 54–55, 121
- Shih-tsung (Yung-cheng) of the Ch’ing, Emperor, xxiii
- Shilla. See Korea
- Shu. See Szechwan
- Shu Ch’i, 134
- Shu-ching. See The Book of Documents
- Shui-ching chu. See A Commentary on the Water Classic
- Shui-hu chuan. See Water Margin
- Shun-te Prefecture, 3
- Shun-t’ien Prefecture, 120
- Six Bridges (Liu Ch’iao), 43, 47–48, 118
- Six Classics (Liu Ching), xiv, 28, 109, 114, 133
- sketches (pi-chi), xxvii
- Smaller Mount K’un-shan (Hsiao K’un-shan), 38, 117
- Solitary Hill (Ku-shan), 74, 120, 125
- song lyric (tz’u), xiii–xiv, xxviii
- Soochow, 29, 69, 73, 124–25
- Southern Capital. See Nanking
- Southern Metropolitan Region, 3, 11, 33, 69
- The Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), 114
- Ssu-ch’eng Chen-tzu, 64
- Ssu-ma Ch’ien, xvi, xxv, 3–4, 101, 110, 116, 123–24, 134
- Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, 77, 126
- Ssu-tsung (Ch’ung-chen) of the Ming, Emperor, 75
- Starobinski, Jean, 108
- Stone Scripture Hills (Shih-ching-shan), 118
- Stonehead (Shih-shou) County, 43–44, 118–19
- Strassberg, Richard E., xxiv, xxxi, xxxiii, 87, 107
- Students. See government school students
- Su Embankment, 43, 47–48, 118
- Su Han-ch’en, 91, 130
- Su Shih (Su Tung-p’o), xvi–xvii, xxi, xxv, 5, 12, 17, 37, 41, 70, 81, 101, 108–9, 112, 118, 134
- Sun Ch’u, 127
- Sung-chiang Prefecture, 11, 33, 117
- Sung-shan, Mount, 111
- Surangama Sūtra, 62
- Szechwan (Shu), xxviii, 9, 62, 98, 110, 113, 117, 121, 123, 135
- Tai K’uei, 80, 127
- Tai Sung, 16, 111
- Tai-tsung (Ching-t’ai) of the Ming, Emperor, xiii
- T’ai-hu, Lake, 77, 88, 117, 129
- T’ai-shan, Mount, 111
- T’ai-ts’ang County, 109
- T’ai-tsu of the Ming, Emperor, xxiii, 111
- T’ai-tsung of the Ming, Emperor, xiii
- T’an Yüan-ch’un, xxi–xxii, xxvii–xxviii, 57, 62–63, 65, 81–85, 86
- T’ang Hsien-tsu, xxi, xxiii, 75
- T’ang Kao-ts’ai, 108
- T’ang Keng, 113
- T’ang Shih-sheng, 124
- T’ang Shun-chih, xx
- T’ang-Sung School, xvii, xix–xx
- Tao-hsüeh. See Neo-Confucianism
- Tao te ching, 109
- T’ao Ch’ien (T’ao Yüan-ming), 14, 35, 37, 101–2, 111, 115, 125, 132–33
- T’ao Wang-ling, 47–48, 53, 55, 120
- Taoism, 22, 25–26, 29, 36, 41, 69, 110, 116, 123, 132, 134
- tea drinking, xxvii, 15, 48, 50, 86, 88–90, 93, 96–99, 130
- T’ien-mu, Mount, 102, 134
- T’ien Su-lan, 108
- T’ien-t’ai, Mount, 15
- Tiger Hill (Hu-ch’iu), 70, 73
- Tin Hill (Hsi-shan), 77, 126
- Todorov, Tzvetan, 108
- travel notes (yu-chi), xvi, xxiv, xxvii, 46, 75
- tsa-chü. See northern drama
- Ts’ai Hsiang, 12, 110
- Ts’ao Chih, 47, 119
- Ts’ao O, 127
- Ts’ao O River, 79
- Ts’ao Ts’ao, 9, 66, 110, 116, 119, 124
- Tseng Ching (Tseng Po-ch’en), 90, 130
- Tseng Kung, xx, 54, 121
- Tseng Tien, xv–xvi
- Tso Liang-yü, 130
- Tso’s Commentary (Tso-chuan), 116
- Tsou Yüan-piao, 31, 114
- Tsung Ping, 16, 111
- Tu Fu, xx, xxviii, xxxiv–xxxv, 54, 63–64, 79, 121, 123, 127
- Tu Mu, 123
- T’u Lung, xxii, xxv–xxvi, 29–32, 114
- Tuan-chou, 110
- Tung Ch’i-ch’ang, xviii, 33, 69
- Tung-fang So, 75
- Tung-t’ing, Lake, 44
- T’ung-ch’eng School, xxix, 4
- Tzu-kung, 111
- tz’u. See song lyric
- Waley, Arthur, 119
- Wang An-shih, 129
- Wang Ch’en, 110
- Wang Chi, 101, 133
- Wang Chi (Wang Tzu-yang), 60, 122
- Wang Hsi-chih, xvi, 110, 112, 127
- Wang Hsien-chih, 79, 110, 127
- Wang Hui-chih, 80, 127
- Wang I-sun, 108
- Wang Kung, 110
- Wang, Lady, 79, 127
- Wang Mang, 134
- Wang Sheng-chung, xx
- Wang Shih-chen, xix–xxii, xxvi, 4, 29, 33, 46
- Wang Shih-fu, 113
- Wang Shou-jen, xxii, 22, 91, 130
- Wang Ssu-jen, xvi, xxii, xxiv, xxvii–xxviii, 75–80, 107, 127, 130
- Wang Wei, 14, 70, 111
- Wang Yüeh-sheng, 92–93, 95–96, 131
- water chestnuts (as food), 10, 19, 112
- Water Margin (Shui-hu chuan), 22, 28, 93, 114, 131
- wei-ch’i. See chess, Chinese
- Wei Chih-huang, 90, 130
- Wei Chih-k’o, 90, 130
- Wei Chung-hsien, 69–70
- Wei Hsiung, 111
- wen. See prose
- Wen hsüan. See The Anthology
- West Lake (Hsi Hu), 43, 47–48, 90, 93–95, 100, 102, 117–18, 120, 125, 134
- The Western Chamber (Hsi-hsiang chi), 22, 26, 28, 113
- Western Hills (Hsi-shan), 42–43, 50, 121
- Widow Ch’ing of Shu, 9, 110
- Wilde, Oscar, 18
- wine drinking, xxv, xxvii, 7, 14, 29, 31, 34–35, 40, 42, 51–52, 54, 66–67, 73, 76–77, 83, 94, 97, 125
- Wisdom Hill (Favor Hill, Hui-shan), 77, 89, 126, 130
- Woolf, Virginia, xxxiv
- Wu, 60, 76–77, 123, 125–26, 129, 133
- Wu-ch’ang, 51
- Wu Chen, 69
- Wu Chün, 125
- Wu-hsi, 126
- Wu Sung, 93, 131
- Wu-sung River, 6–7
- Wu Ting-fang, 83, 128
- Wu Tui, 111
- Wu Tzu-hsü, 125
- Wu-wang of the Chou, King, 134
- Wu Wei-yeh, 69
- Yang-ti of the Sui, Emperor, 115
- Yang Yü-huan (Imperial Consort), 77, 115, 126
- Yangchow (Kuang-ling), 19, 77–78, 126
- Yangtze River, xvii, xxviii, 81, 87–88, 110, 114, 117–19, 123, 130, 132
- Yao-an Prefecture, 22
- Yao Hsing, xviii
- Yao Li, 101, 133
- Yao P’ing-chung, 37, 116–17
- Yao Yün-ts’ai (Yao Chien-shu), 90–91, 130
- Ye, Yang, 108
- Yeh Fa-shan, 77, 126
- Yellow Mountain (Huang-shan), 57, 97
- Yen, 15, 31, 49, 111, 115, 120
- Yen-chou, 87
- Yen Chün, 113
- Yen Fu, xxxii–xxxiii
- Yen Wu, 64, 121, 123
- Yen Ying, 75
- Yin-hsien County, 29
- yu-chi. See travel notes
- Yü (founder of Hsia Dynasty), 122
- Yü-ch’ing County, 113
- Yü-chou, 129
- Yü-ling, 99, 132
- Yüan Chung-tao, xvii, xxi–xxii, xxvi–xxvii, xxxi, 22–23, 29, 34, 41, 44, 46–47, 52, 57–61, 63, 122
- Yüan Hung-tao, xvi–xvii, xxi–xxii, xxv–xxix, xxxi–xxxii, 19, 22–23, 29, 34, 41, 43, 46–56, 57, 59–61, 63, 65, 67, 86, 108–9, 122, 126, 133
- Yüan Nai-ling, 108
- yüan-pen. See prompt-books
- Yüan Sung, 58, 122
- Yüan Te-pen, 108
- Yüan Tsung-tao, xxi–xxii, xxvi, xxxi, 22–23, 29, 34–35, 41–45, 46–47, 52, 57, 59, 63, 115, 131
- Yüeh, 32, 53, 55, 60, 77, 83, 115, 126
- Yüeh-ching. See The Book of Music
- Yüeh Fei, 47, 120
- Yüeh-yang, 43–44, 118
- Yunnan, 22, 88