Chapter 1 Pre-Qin Dynasties:Early Poetry

The Book of Songs

Elegies of the South

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Chapter 2 Pre-Qin Dynasties:Early Prose

The Analects

The Book of Tao and Teh

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Chapter 3 The Han to Northern and Southern Dynasties:Poetry and Prose

Poems by Tao Qian and Folk Songs

Prose Writings by Tao Qian and Sima Qian

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Chapter 4 The Tang Dynasty:Shi Poetry

Shi Poems by Li Bai

Shi Poems by Du Fu

Shi Poems by other Tang poets

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Chapter 5 The Song Dynasty:Ci Poetry

Ci Poems by Su Shi

Ci Poems by Xin Qiii

Ci Poems by Li Qingzhao

Ci Poems by Other Poets

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Chapter 6 The Tang and Song Dynasties:Prose

On Teachers by Han Yu

The Snake-Catcher by Liu Zongyuan

First Visit to the Red Cliff by Su Shi

Yueyang Pavilion by Fan Zhongyan

ThePavilion of the Old Drunkard by Ouyang Xiu

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Chapter 7 The Yuan Dynasty:Qu Opera

Snow in Midsummer by Guan Hanqing

Rescued by a Coquette by Guan Hanqing

Romance of the Western Bower by Wang Shifu

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Chapter 8 The Ming and Qing Dynasties:Fiction

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

A Dream ofthe Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin

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Chapter 9 Modern Times:Poetry and Fiction

Poetry

Poems by Hu Shi

Poems by Hai Zi

Poems by Other Poets

Fiction

A Madman's Diary by Lu Xun

A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

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Appendix

References