The Chinese essay =: [Gu jin san wen Ying yi ji]

Skeleton Chronology

To Lead out the Army / Zhuge Liang

Requiem for Myself / Tao Qian

Address to the Crocodiles of Chaozhou

Goodbye to Penury / Han Yu

Whip Vendor

My First Excursion to West Mountain

Small Rock Pool West of the Hillock / Liu Zongyuan

Monument to Rustic Temples / Lu Guimeng

Old Toper's Pavilion / Ouyang Xiu

Terrace over the Void

Master Table Mountain

Red Cliff: One

Inscription for the Temple of Han Yu at Chaozhou / Su Shi

Pavilion of Elation / Su Che

Mosquito Dialogue / Fang Xiaoru

My Mother: A Brief Life

Xiangji Studio / Gui Youguang

Tiger Hill

Rewards of Stupidity / Yuan Hongdao

Full Moon Festival at the West Lake

Wang Yuesheng

Liu Jingting: Storyteller

Jades of Yangzhou / Zhang Dai

Pleasant Diversions: Judging Beauty

Pleasant Diversions: Accomplishments

Pleasant Diversions: Literacy

Pleasant Diversions: Clothes / Li Yu

Life in Prison / Fang Bao

Thoughts on Master Huang's Book Borrowing / Yuan Mei

Three Summer Pests

Evolution of the Male Sex

Ah Jin

Confucius in Modern China / Lu Xun

Relentless Rain

Reading in the Lavatory

On 'Passing the Itch'

Ageing of Ghosts

In Praise of Mutes / Zhou Zuoren

Ornamental Iron Mountain

Winter at White Horse Lake / Xia Mianzun

Three Kinds of Boat

My Own Patch of Green

Intellectuals / Ye Shengtao

Eating Melon Seeds

Autumn

Bombs in Yishan / Feng Zikai

Village School and Academy

Winter Scene in Jiangnan / Yu Dafu

View from the Rear

Traces of Wenzhou

Lotus Pond by Moonlight / Zhu Ziqing

Sickness

Haircut

Listening to Plays / Liang Shih-ch'iu

On the Road

Well-meant Words / Liang Yuchun

Temple Lodging / Lu Li

Art of Listening

Cloak of Invisibility / Yang Jiang

Elegy / He Qifang

Chignon / Ch'i Chun

Religion of the Chinese

Beating / Eileen Chang

Last Word in Beauty and Ugliness

Footprints / Wang Ting-chun

Thus Friends Absent Speak

My Four Hypothetical Enemies / Yu Kwang-chung

Call of the Ruins / Zongpu

Countryside of the Past

Today's Countryside / Koarnhak Tarn

We Can't Bring Back the Past

Waiting for a Flower's Name / Huang Chunming

Shanghai People / Yu Qiuyu

Goodwives.