The Chinese Essay
Edited and translated by David Pollard
| Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| Skeleton Chronology | |
| Introduction | |
| Zhuge Liang (181 — 234) | |
| To Lead out the Army | |
| Tao Qian (365 — 427) | |
| Requiem for Myself | |
| Han Yu (768 — 824) | |
| Address to the Crocodiles of Chaozhou | |
| Goodbye to Penury | |
| Liu Zongyuan (773 — 819) | |
| The Whip Vendor | |
| My First Excursion to West Mountain | |
| The Small Rock Pool West of the Hillock | |
| Lu Guimeng (? — ca. 881) | |
| A Monument to Rustic Temples | |
| Ouyang Xiu (1007 — 1072) | |
| The Old Toper's Pavilion | |
| Su Shi (1037 — 1101) | |
| The Terrace over the Void | |
| Master Table Mountain | |
| Red Cliff: One | |
| Inscription for the Temple of Han Yu at Chaozhou | |
| Su Che (1039 — 1112) | |
| The Pavilion of Elation | |
| Fang Xiaoru (1357 — 1402) | |
| The Mosquito Dialogue | |
| Gui Youguang (1506 — 1571) | |
| My Mother: A Brief Life | |
| The Xiangji Studio | |
| Yuan Hongdao (1568 — 1610) | |
| Tiger Hill | |
| The Rewards of Stupidity | |
| Zhang Dai (1597 — 1684) | |
| The Full Moon Festival at the West Lake | |
| Wang Yuesheng | |
| Liu Jingting: Storyteller | |
| The Jades of Yangzhou | |
| Li Yu (1611 — 1680) | |
| Pleasant Diversions: Judging Beauty | |
| Pleasant Diversions: Accomplishments | |
| Pleasant Diversions: Literacy | |
| Pleasant Diversions: Clothes | |
| Fang Bao (1668 — 1749) | |
| Life in Prison | |
| Yuan Mei (1716 — 1797) | |
| Thoughts on Master Huang's Book Borrowing | |
| Lun Xun (1881 — 1936) | |
| Three Summer Pests | |
| The Evolution of the Male Sex | |
| Ah Jin | |
| Confucius in Modern China | |
| Zhou Zuoren (1885 — 1967) | |
| Relentless Rain | |
| Reading in the Lavatory | |
| On 'Passing the Itch' | |
| The Ageing of Ghosts | |
| In Praise of Mutes | |
| Xia Mianzun (1886 — 1946) | |
| The Ornamental Iron Mountain | |
| Winter at White Horse Lake | |
| Ye Shengtao (1894 — 1988) | |
| Three Kinds of Boat | |
| My Own Patch of Green | |
| Intellectuals | |
| Feng Zikai (1898 — 1975) | |
| Eating Melon Seeds | |
| Autumn | |
| Bombs in Yishan | |
| Yu Dafu (1896 — 1945) | |
| Village School and Academy | |
| The Winter Scene in Jiangnan | |
| Zhu Ziqing (1898 — 1948) | |
| The View from the Rear | |
| Traces of Wenzhou | |
| The Lotus Pond by Moonlight | |
| Liang Shih-ch'iu (1902 — 1987) | |
| Sickness | |
| Haircut | |
| Listening to Plays | |
| Liang Yuchun (1906 — 1932) | |
| On the Road | |
| Well-meant Words |
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| Lu Li (1908 — 1942) | |
| A Temple Lodging | |
| Yang Jiang (1911 — ) | |
| The Art of Listening | |
| Cloak of Invisibility | |
| He Qifang (1912 — 1979) | |
| Elegy | |
| Ch'i Chun (1917 — ) | |
| Chignon | |
| Eileen Chang (1920 — 1995) | |
| The Religion of the Chinese | |
| A Beating | |
| Wang Ting-chün (1925 — ) | |
| The Last Word in Beauty and Ugliness | |
| Footprints | |
| Yu Kwang-chung (1928 — ) | |
| Thus Friends Absent Speak | |
| My Four Hypothetical Enemies | |
| Zongpu (1928 — ) | |
| The Call of the Ruins | |
| Koarnhak Tarn (1934 — ) | |
| The Countryside of the Past | |
| Today's Countryside | |
| Huang Chunming (1939 — ) | |
| We Can't Bring Back the Past | |
| Waiting for a Flower's Name | |
| Yu Qiuyu (1946 — ) | |
| Shanghai People | |
| Zhang Xingjian (1959 — ) | |
| Goodwives | |
| References | |
Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.