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  • ---. The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'ang. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
  • ---. Remembrances: The Experience of the Past in Classical Chinese Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
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  • Yang, Xiaoshan. Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2003.
  • Van Zoeren, Steven. Poetry and Personality: Reading, Exegesis, and Hermeneutics in Traditional China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
  • Waley, Arthur, The Nine Songs: A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China. London: Allen & Unwin, 1955.
  • ---, trans. The Temple and Other Poems. New York: Knopf, 1923.
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  • Watson, Burton. Early Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.
  • Widmer, Ellen. The Margins of Utopia: Shui-hu hou-chuan and the Literature of Ming Loyalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1987.
  • Yu, Anthony C. Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber. Princeton University Press, 1997.
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  • Yu, Pauline. The Reading of Imagery in the Chinese Poetic Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
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  • Zeitlin, Judith. Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
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