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Ashmore, Robert. "The Banquet's Aftermath: Yan Jidao's Ci Poetics and the High Tradition." T'oung Pao Vol. 88 Fasc. 4/5 (2002): 211-250.
Birch, Cyril, ed. Anthology of Chinese Literature: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century. New York: Grove Press, 1965.
Cai, Zong-qi (ed.). A Chinese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin diaolong. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Chan, Timothy Wai Keung. "A Tale of Two Worlds: The Late Tang Poetic Presentation of The Romance of the Peach Blossom Font." T'oung Pao Volume 94 Numbers 4-5 2008: 209-245.
---. "The 'Ganyu' of Chen Ziang: Questions on the Formation of a Poetic Genre." T'oung Pao Vol. 87 Fasc. 1/3 (2001): 14-42.
Chan, Leo Tak-Hung. The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Chang, Kang-i Sun. The Evolution of Chinese Tz'u Poetry from the Late T'ang to Northern Sung. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Chaves, Jonathan, ed. and trans. The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry: Yuan, Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
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, Eva Shan. Reconsidering Tu Fu: Literary Greatness and Cultural Context. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Crump, J. I. Intrigues: Studies of the Chan-kuo Ts'e. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963.
Egan, Charles H. "Reconsidering the Role of Folk Songs in Pre-T'ang Y?eh-fu Development." T'oung Pao Volume 86 Numbers 1-3 2000: 47-99.
Egan, Ronald. The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
---. Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi. Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1994.
Hanan, Patrick, The Invention of Li Yu. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
---, trans. The Carnal Prayer Mat, Li Yu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
---, Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Essays By Patrick Hanan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Hartman, Charles. "The Reluctant Historian: Sun Ti, Chu Hsi, and the Fall of Northern Sung." T'oung Pao Vol 89 Fasc. 1/3 (2003): 100-148.
Hawkes, David, trans. Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess: A Thirteenth-Century Zaju Play by Shang Zhongxian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Hegel, Robert. The Novel in Seventeenth Century China. N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Hightower, James R. Topics in Chinese Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, rev. ed., 1953.
Holzman, Donald. Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998.
Huang, Martin. Literati and Self-Re/Presentation: Autobiographical Sensibility in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Hughes, Ernest R. Two Chinese Poets: Vignettes of Han Life and Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.
Idema, Wilt, & Lloyd Haft, A Guide to Chinese Literature. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997. Resource for teachers and students in courses on Chinese literature.
---, Li, Wai-yee, and Ellen Widmer, eds. Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2005.
Inglis, Alister D. "A Textual History of Hong Mai's Yijian zhi." T'oung Pao Volume 93 Numbers 4-5 2007: 283-368.
Jiang, Jin. "Butterfly Dreams: Narrating Women, Sex, and Morality in Chinese Theater." The Chinese Historical Review Volume 16 Number 2 Fall 2009: 125-146.
Kalinowski, Marc. "Les livres des jours (rishu) des Qin et des Han: la logique ?ditoriale du recueil A de Shuihudi (217 avant notre ?re)." T'oung Pao Volume 94 Numbers 1-3 2008: 1-48.
Kern, Martin. "Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon: Historical Transitions of 'Wen' in Early China." T'oung Pao Vol. 87 Fasc. 1/3 (2001): 43-91.
Knechtges, David R. The Han Rhapsody: A Study of Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B. C. - A. D. 18. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Kroll, Paul W. "Nostalgia and History in Mid-Ninth-Century Verse: Cheng Y?'s Poem on 'The Chin-Yang Gate'."T'oung Pao Vol. 89 Fasc. 4/5 (2003): 286-366.
Kwong, Charles Yim-tze. Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1994.
Leslie, Donald. Islamic Literature in Chinese. Canberra: College of Advanced Education, 1981.
Li, Wai-yee. Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Liu, James J. Y. The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
---. Chinese Theories of Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Lu, Sheldon. From Historicity to Fictionality: the Chinese Poetics of Narrative. Stanford University Pree, 1994.
Mackerras, Colin, The Rise of the Peking Opera, 1770-1870: Social Aspects of the Theatre in Manchu China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
---. Chinese Theater: From its Origins to the Present Day. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
Mair, Victor, ed. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 1280 pp.
---, ed., The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 704 pp.
---, ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 1376 pp.
Mc Craw, David. Chinese Lyricists of the Seventeenth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
Minford, John, and S. M. Lau, eds. Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations. Volume One: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 1248 pp.
Murck, Alfreda. Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent. Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2000; 2002.
Nienhauser, William H. Jr. "A Note on a Textual Problem in the 'shih chi' and Some Speculations concerning the Compilation of the Hereditary Houses." T'oung Pao Vol 89 Fasc. 1/3 (2003): 39-58.
---, ed. and compiler. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Nugent, Christopher M.B. "Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China." T'oung Pao Volume 93 Numbers 1-3 2007: 1-52.
Owen, Stephen. Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
---. 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.
Plaks, Andrew. Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Pollard, David, trans. The Chinese Essay: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Ropp, Paul, Dissent in Early Modern China: Ju-lin wai-shih and Ch'ing Social Criticism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.
Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig. Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur. Bern and Munich: Scherz verlag, 1990.
Schmidt, J. D. Within the Human Realm: The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Sieber, Patricia. Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song- Drama, 1300-2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Strassberg, Richard. The World of K'ung Shang-jen: A Man of Letters in Early Ch'ing China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Shao, Ping. "Huineng, Subh?ti, and Monkey'a Religion in Xiyou ji." The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 65 Issue 04 November 2006: 713-740.
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Strassberg, Richard E. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.
Watson, Burton, trans. Po Chu-i: Selected Poems. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
---, trans., Selected Poems of Du Fu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
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.
---. Translations from the Chinese. New York: Knopf, 1941.
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.
Yu, Anthony C. Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Yu, Pauline. The Reading of Imagery in the Chinese Poetic Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
---, ed. Voices of the Sung Lyric in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Zeitlin, Judith. Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
--- and Liu, Lydia H. (ed.). Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center for Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2003.
Zhou, Zuyan. "Chaos and the Gourd in 'The Dream of the Red Chamber'." T'oung Pao Vol. 87 Fasc. 4/5 (2001): 251-288.