Inhalt: Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Antiquity: I. Origins ; II. "Let a hundred flowers bloom, Let a hundred schools of thought contend!". 1. Mo zi and the Logicians ; 2. Legalism ; 3. The Fathers of Taoism ; III. The Confucian Classics -- Ch. 2. Prose: I. Narrative Art and Historical Records ; II. The Return of the "Ancient Style". III. The Golden Age of Trivial Literature ; IV. Literary Criticism -- Ch. 3. Poetry: I. The Two Sources of Ancient Poetry ; 1. The Song of Chu ; 2. Poetry of the Han Court ; II. The Golden Age of Chinese Poetry ; 1. From Aesthetic Emotion to Metaphysical Flights ; 2. The Age of Maturity ; 3. The Late Tang ; III. The Triumph of Genres in Song -- Ch. 4. Literature of Entertainment, The Novel and Theater: I. Narrative Literature Written in Classical Chinese ; II. The Theater ; 1. The Opera-theater of the North ; 2. The Opera-theater of the South ; III. The Novel ; 1. Oral Literature ; 2. Stories and Novellas ; 3. The "Long Novel" or Saga -- Index
