Bibliography

Primary Texts

Translator’s note: Whenever possible, I have used the most recent scholarly editions of the works of these authors. In the following list each piece is traced to its original section (chüan) number (if available) and its page number(s) in the specified edition.

Chang Tai

• Chang Tai shih wen chi (Poetry and prose of Chang Tai). Edited by Hsia Hsien-ch’un. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1991. “An Epitaph for Myself” (294–97).
• Hsi-hu meng-hsün (Searching for West Lake in dreams). Edited and annotated by Sun Chia-sui. Hangchow: Chekiang wen-i ch’u-pan-she, 1985. “Preface to Searching for West Lake in Dreams” (1–2).
• T’ao-an meng-i (Dream memories from the T’ao Hut). Edited by Chang Hsiao-t’ien. Ts’ung-shu chi-ch’eng edition. Ch’ang-sha: Shang-wu yin-shu-kuan, 1939. “A Night Performance at Golden Hill” (1.4); “Plum Blossoms Bookroom” (2.14); “Drinking Tea at Pop Min’s” (3.20–21); “Viewing the Snow from the Mid-Lake Gazebo” (3.24); “Yao Chien-shu’s Paintings” (5.38–39); “Moon at Censer Peak” (5.39); “Liu Ching-t’ing the Storyteller” (5.40–41); “West Lake on the Fifteenth Night of the Seventh Month” (7.58–59); “Wang Yüeh-sheng” (8.68); “Crab Parties” (8.71); “Lang-hsüan, Land of Enchantment” (8.74).

Ch’en Chi-ju

• Ch’en Mei-kung ch’üan-chi (Complete works of Ch’en Mei-kung). 2 vols. Shanghai: Chung-yang shu-tien, 1936. “A Colophon to A Profile of Yao P’ing-chung” (II. 210–11).
• Wan-hsiang-t’ang chi (Works from the Evening Fragrance Hall). Tsui-lü chü, ed. Ca. 1636. 10 chüan. “Trips to See Peach in Bloom” (5.3a–4b); “Inscription on Wang Chung-tsun’s A History of Flowers” (10.2a–2b); “A Colophon to A History of Flowers” (10.8a).
• Yen-ch’i yu-shih (Privacies in the mountains). Shanghai: Shang-wu yin-shu-kuan, 1936. “Selections from Privacies in the Mountains” (3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11).

Chung Hsing

• Yin-hsiu-hsüan chi (Works from the Belvedere of Latent Salience). Edited by Li Hsien-keng and Ts’ui Ch’ung-ch’ing. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1992. “Flower-Washing Brook” (20.328–29); “To Ch’en Chi-ju” (28.475–76); “A Colophon to My Poetry Collection” (35.560–61); “Colophon to A Drinker’s Manual (Four Passages)” (35.567–68); “Inscription after Yüan Hung-tao’s Calligraphy” (35.578); “Inscription on My Portrait” (35.583).

Hsü Wei

• Hsü Wei chi (Works of Hsü Wei). 4 vols. Peking: Chung-hua shu-chü, 1983.
• Hsü Wen-ch’ang san chi (The Third Collection of Hsü Wen-ch’ang’s Works): “To Ma Ts’e-chih” (16.II:83); “Foreword to Yeh Tzu-shu’s Poetry” (18.II:519–20); “Another Colophon (On the Modern Script ‘The Seventeenth’ in the Collection of Minister Chu of the Imperial Stud)” (20.II:575).
• Hsü Wen-ch’ang yi-kao (Posthumous Works of Hsü Wen-ch’ang): “A Dream” (24.III:1055–56).

Kuei Yu-kuang

• Cheng-ch’uan hsien-sheng chi (Works of Master Cheng-ch’uan). Edited by Chou Pen-ch’un. 2 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1981. “Foreword to ‘Reflections on The Book of Documents’” (2.I:50–51); “A Parable of Urns” (4.I:101); “Inscription on the Wall of the Wild Crane Belvedere” (15.I: 399–400); “The Craggy Gazebo” (17.I:427); “The Hsiang-chi Belvedere” (17.I:429–431); “An Epitaph for Chillyposy” (22.II:536).

Li Chih

• Fen shu (A book to be burned) and Hsü Fen shu (A second book to be burned). Peking: Chung-hua shu-chü, 1975.
• Fen shu: “Three Fools” (3.106–7); “In Praise of Liu Hsieh” (3.130); “A Lament for the Passing” (4.164); “On the Mind of a Child” (3.98–99).
• Hsü Fen shu: “Inscription on a Portrait of Confucius at the Iris Buddhist Shrine” (4.100).

Li Liu-fang

• Mei-shu ts’ung-shu ch’u-chi (A library of fine arts: First series). Edited by Huang Ping-hung and Teng Shih. No. 10. 4th ed. Shanghai: Shen-chou kuo-kuang she, 1947. “Inscription on A Picture of Solitary Hill on a Moonlit Night” (142–43).
• Wan-Ming erh-shih-chia hsiao-p’in (Vignettes of twenty late Ming authors). “A Short Note about My Trips to Tiger Hill” (185); “A Short Note about My Trips to Boulder Lake” (185–86); “Inscriptions on An Album of Recumbent Travels in Chiang-nan (Four Passages)” (189–91).

Lu Shu-sheng

• Wan-Ming erh-shih-chia hsiao-p’in. Edited by Shih Che-ts’un. Shanghai: Kuang-ming shu-chü, 1935. “Inkslab Den” (18–19); “Bitter Bamboo” (19); “A Trip to Wei Village” (21–22); “A Short Note about My Six Attendants in Retirement” (22); “Inscription on Two Paintings in My Collection” (23); “Inscription on a Portrait of Tung-p’o Wearing Bamboo Hat and Clogs” (24).

T’an Yüan-ch’un

• T’an Yu-hsia ho-chi (Collected writings of T’an Yu-hsia). Edited by Kung Fu-ch’u. Shanghai: Shen-chou kuo-kuang she, 1935. “First Trip to Black Dragon Pond” (11.145); “Second Trip to Black Dragon Pond” (11.146); “Third Trip to Black Dragon Pond” (11.146–47).

T’u Lung

• Wan-Ming erh-shih-chia hsiao-p’in. “A Letter in Reply to Li Wei-yin” (47–48); “To a Friend, while Staying in the Capital” (48); “To a Friend, after Coming Home in Retirement” (48–49).

Wang Ssu-jen

• Wang Chi-chung tsa-chu (Miscellaneous works of Wang Chi-chung). 2 vols. Reprint. Taipei: Wei-wen ch’u-pan-she, 1977. “Shan-hsi Brook” (II:653–54).
• Wen-fan hsiao-p’in (Vignettes as literary meals). Edited by Chiang Chin-te. Ch’ang-sha: Yüeh-lu shu-she, 1989. “A Trip to Brimming Well” (3.243–44); “A Trip to Wisdom Hill and Tin Hill” (3.252–53); “Passing by the Small Ocean” (3.283–84).

Yüan Chung-tao

• K’o-hsüeh-chai chi (Works from the Gemmy Snow Studio). Edited by Ch’ien Po-ch’eng. 3 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1989. “Foreword to The Sea of Misery” (10.I:473–74); “Shady Terrace” (12.II:525); “Selections from Wood Shavings of Daily Life” (1:32.III:1111; 4:81.III: 1196; 4:102.III: 1200–1201; 5:39.III:1209; 6.III:1306).

Yüan Hung-tao

• Yüan Hung-tao chi chien-chiao (Works of Yüan Hung-tao: A new edition with commentaries). Edited by Ch’ien Po-ch’eng. 2 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1981. “First Trip to West Lake” (10.I:422); “Waiting for the Moon: An Evening Trip to the Six Bridges” (10.I:423–24); “A Trip to the Six Bridges after a Rain” (10.I:426); “Mirror Lake” (10.I:445); “A Trip to Brimming Well” (17.I:681); “A Trip to High Beam Bridge” (17.I:682–83); “A Biography of the Stupid but Efficient Ones” (19.I:723–25); “A Biography of Hsü Wen-ch’ang” (19.I:715–17).

Yüan Tsung-tao

• Po-Su-tsai lei chi (Classified works from the Po-Su Studio). Edited by Ch’ien Po-ch’eng. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1989. “Little Western Paradise” (14.188–89); “A Trip to Sukhāvatі Temple” (14.192–93); “A Trip to Yüeh-yang” (14.194–95); “Miscellanea” (21.301–4).

Selected English-Language Works

The following list of works cited or consulted will be useful for readers who want to know more about traditional Chinese nonfictional belles-lettres prose, especially the hsiao-p’in, its authors, and more of their biographical, cultural, historical, and philosophical background.

• Birch, Cyril, comp. and ed. Anthology of Chinese Literature: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century. New York: Grove Press, 1965.
• ________, ed. Anthology of Chinese Literature. Volume 2: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day. New York: Grove Press, 1972.
• ________, ed. Studies in Chinese Literary Genres. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
• Bush, Susan, and Christian Murck, eds. Theories of the Arts in China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
• Chan, Albert. The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.
• Chan, Hok-lam, ed. Li Chih (1527–1602) in Contemporary Chinese Historiography: New Light on His Life and Works. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1980.
• Chan, Wing-tsit. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
• Chang, Kang-i Sun. The Late-Ming Poet Ch’en Tzu-lung: Crises of Love and Loyalism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
• Chaves, Jonathan. “The Expression of Self in the Kung-an School: Non-Romantic Individualism.” In Hegel and Hessney, Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature.
• ________. “The Panoply of Images: A Reconsideration of Literary Theory of the Kung-an School.” In Bush and Murck, eds., Theories of the Arts in China.
• ________. Singing of the Source: Nature and God in the Poetry of the Chinese Painter Wu Li. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.
• ________, trans. Pilgrim of the Clouds: Poems and Essays by Yüan Hung-tao and His Brothers. New York: Weatherhill, 1978.
• Chen, Yu-shih. Images and Ideas in Chinese Classical Prose: Studies of Four Masters. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
• Ch’en, Shou-yi. Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction. New York: Ronald Press, 1961.
• Chou, Chih-p’ing. Yüan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• De Bary, William. Theodore, ed. Self and Society in Ming Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
• ________, ed. Sources of Chinese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
• Dennerline, Jerry. The Chia-ting Loyalists: Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
• Egan. Ronald C. The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007–72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• ________. Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shih. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Goodrich, L. Carrington. The Literary Inquisition of Ch’ien-lung. Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1935.
• ________, and Chao-ying Fang, eds. Dictionary of Ming Biography: 1368–1644. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
• Hargett, James M. On the Road in Twelfth Century China: The Travel Diaries of Fan Chengda (1126–1193). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1989.
• Hegel, Robert E. The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
• ________, and Richard C. Hessney, eds. Expression of Self in Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
• Hsü Hsia-ko. Translated by Li Chi. The Travel Diaries of Hsü Hsia-ko. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1974.
• Huang, Ray. A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
• Hucker, Charles O., ed. Chinese Government in Ming Times: Seven Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
• ________. A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
• ________. The Traditional Chinese State in Ming Times: Seven Studies, 1368–1644. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1961.
• Hummel, Arthur W., ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period: 1644–1912. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943.
• Hung Ming-shui. “Yüan Hung-tao and the Late Ming Literary and Intellectual Movement.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1974.
• Jacobson, Roman, “The Dominant.” In Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska, eds., Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views, pp. 82–90. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1978.
• Lai Ming. A History of Chinese Literature. New York: John Day, 1964.
• Li, Chu-tsing, and James C. Y. Watt, eds. The Chinese Scholar’s Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
• Lin, Yutang. The Importance of Living. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1938.
• ________, trans. Translations from the Chinese: The Importance of Understanding. New York: World Publishing Company, 1960.
• Liu I-ch’ing. Translated by Richard Mather. Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976.
• Liu, James J. Y. Essentials of Chinese Literary Art. North Scituate, Mass.: Duxbury Press, 1979.
• ________. Theories of Chinese Literature. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1975.
• Liu Shih Shun, trans. Chinese Classical Prose: The Eight Masters of the T’ang-Sung Period. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1979.
• Lynn, Richard John. “Alternate Routes to Self-Realization in Ming Theories of Poetry.” In Bush and Murck, eds., Theories of the Arts in China.
• ________. “Tradition and Synthesis: Wang Shih-chen as Poet and Critic.” Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1961.
• Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
• McCraw, David R. Chinese Lyricists of the Seventeenth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
• Mote, Frederick W., and Denis Twitchett, eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Nienhauser, William H., Jr., ed. and comp. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
• ________et al. Liu Tsung-yüan. New York: Twayne, 1973.
• Owen, Stephen, ed. and trans. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
• ________. Readings in Chinese Literary Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992.
• ________. Remembrances: The Experience of the Past in Classical Chinese Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
• Paper, Jordan D. Guide to Chinese Prose. 2nd ed. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.
• Peterson, Willard. Bitter Gourd: Fang I-chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
• The Plum in the Golden Vase, or, Chin P’ing Mei. Translated by David T. Roy. Vol. 1, The Gathering. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• Poetry and Prose of the Ming and Qing. Peking: Panda Books, 1986.
• Pollard, David E. A Chinese Look at Literature: The Literary Values of Chou Tso-jen in Relation to the Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
• Rickett, Adele A., ed. Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang Ch’i-ch’ao. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
• Smith, Logan Pearsall. All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections and Aphorisms. Foreword by Gore Vidal. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1984.
• Spence, Jonathan D., and John E. Wills, Jr., eds. From Ming to Ch’ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
• Strassberg, Richard E., trans. Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• Su Tung-P’o (Su Shih). Translated by Burton Watson. Selected Poems by Su Tung-p’o. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 1994.
• T’u Lung. Translated by Lin Yutang. The Travels of Mingliaotse. Shanghai: Hsi-feng she, 1940.
• Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
• ________. “The Price of Autonomy: Intellectuals in Ming and Ch’ing Politics.” Daedalus 101 (Spring 1972), pp. 35–70.
• Woolf, Virginia. Contemporary Writers. London: Hogarth, 1965.
• Wright, Arthur F., ed. The Confucian Persuasion. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960.
• ________. Studies in Chinese Thought. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1953.
• Wright, Arthur F., and Denis Twitchett, eds. Confucian Personalities. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962.
• Wu, Pei-yi. The Confucian’s Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Chinese Works

• Ch’en Shao-t’ang. Wan Ming hsiao-p’in lun-hsi (An analysis of late Ming vignettes). Taipei: Yüan-liu ch’u-pan-she, 1982.
• Ch’en Wan-i. Wan-Ming hsiao-p’in yü Ming-chi wen-jen sheng-huo (Vignettes of the late Ming and the life of the Ming literati). Taipei: Ta-an ch’u-pan-she, 1982.
• Ch’en Wang-tao, ed. Hsiao-p’in-wen ho man-hua (New vignettes and cartoons). Shanghai: Sheng-huo shu-tien, 1935.
• Cheng Chen-to. Ch’a-t’u-pen Chung-kuo wen-hsüeh-shih (Illustrated history of Chinese literature). 4 vols. Hong Kong: Shang-wu yin-shu-kuan, 1965.
• Ch’ien Mu. “Chung-kuo wen-hsüeh chung te san-wen hsiao-p’in” (The prose vignettes in Chinese literature). In Chung-kuo wen-hsüeh chiang-yen chi (Collections of lectures on Chinese literature), pp. 50–64. Ch’eng-tu: Pa-Shu shu-she, 1987.
• Hsia Hsien-ch’un, ed. Ming liu-shih-chia hsiao-p’in wen ching p’in (Best vignettes of sixty Ming authors). Shanghai: Shanghai she-hui k’o-hsüeh-yüan ch’u-pan-she, 1995.
• ________. Ming-mo ch’i-ts’ai Chang Tai lun (Genius of the closing years of the Ming: A study of Chang Tai). Shanghai: Shanghai she-hui k’o-hsüeh-yüan ch’u-pan-she, 1989.
• Hu I-ch’eng, ed. Ming Hsiao-p’in san-pai p’ien (Three hundred Ming vignettes). Hsian: Hsi-pei ta-hsüeh ch’u-pan-she, 1992.
• Huang K’ai-hua. “Wan-Ming k’o-chü yü shih-feng t’ui pai chih t’an-t’ao” (An investigation into the civil service examination and the degradation of the literati’s morale in the late Ming). In his Ming-shih lun-chi (Essays on the history of the Ming), pp. 587–637. Kowloon: Ch’eng-ming ch’u-pan-she, 1972.
• Jen Fang-ch’iu. Yüan Chung-lang yen-chiu (A study of Yüan Hung-tao). Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1983.
• Liang I-ch’eng. Hsü Wei te wen-hsüeh yü i-shu (The literary and art works of Hsü Wei). Taipei: I-wen ch’u-pan-she, 1976.
• Liu I-ch’ing. Edited by Hsü Cheng-o. Shih-shuo Hsin-yü chiao-chien (An annotated edition of A New Account of Tales of the World). Hong Kong: Chung-hua shu-chü, 1987.
• Liu Ta-chieh. Chung-kuo wen-hsüeh fa-chan-shih (A history of the development of Chinese literature). 3 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai ku-chi ch’u-pan-she, 1982.
• Lu Jun-hsiang, ed. Ming jen hsiao-p’in hsüan (Selected vignettes of Ming authors). Ch’eng-tu: Ssu-ch’uan wen-yi ch’u-pan-she, 1986.
• Lun-yü (Analects). In Ssu shu wu ching (The Four Books and the Five Classics). 3 vols. Tientsin: Ku-chi shu-tien, 1988.
• Su Shih. Tung-p’o chih-lin (Tung-p’o’s memorabilia). Edited by Wang Sung-ling. Peking: Chung-hua shu-chü, 1981.
• ________. Tung-p’o chih-lin / Ch’ou-ch’ih pi-chi (Tung-p’o’s Memorabilia / Notes at Ch’ou-ch’ih). Edited by the Research Institute of Classics at East China Normal University. Shanghai: Hua-tung shih-fan ta-hsüeh ch’u-pan-she, 1983.
• T’ang Kao-ts’ai, ed. Li-tai hsiao-p’in ta-kuan (A grand view of vignettes through the ages). Shanghai: San-lien shu-tien, 1991.
• T’ien Su-lan. Yüan Chung-lang wen-hsüeh yen-chiu (A study of Yüan Hung-tao’s literary works). Taipei: Wen-shih-che ch’u-pan-she, 1982.
• Wang Shih-chen. I-yüan chih-yen chiao chu (An annotated edition of random remarks in the garden of art). Edited by Lo Chung-ting. Chi-nan: Ch’i Lu shu-she, 1992.
• Yang Te-pen. Yüan Chung-lang chih wen-hsüeh ssu-hsiang (The literary thoughts of Yüan Hung-tao). Taipei: Wen-shih-che ch’u-pan-she, 1976.
• Yüan Nai-ling. Yüan Chung-lang yen-chiu (A study of Yüan Hung-tao). Taipei: Hsüehhai ch’u-pan-she, 1981.