McNaughton - Chinese Literature: an Anthology from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The new translations in this anthology were assisted by the Asian Literature Program of The Asia Society, New York, which acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The editor wishes to acknowledge a special debt, for encouragement and advice, to Ms. Bonnie R. Crown, director of the Asian Literature Program of the Asia Society, and to Ms. Junnko Tozaki and Ms. Zelda Bradburd of the Asian Literature Program. He also wishes to express his gratitude to the staff of the Charles E. Tuttle Co. for their contribution to the publication of this book.

The editor wishes to acknowledge use of previously published material from the following sources:

Ezra Pound, trans., The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), copyright 1954 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Selections from The Book of Songs reprinted by, permission of the publisher.

Ezra Pound, trans., The Great Digest and the Unwobbling Pivot (New York: New Directions, 1947), copyright 1928 by Glenn Hughes, copyright 1947 by Ezra Pound. Selections reprinted by permission of New Directions and of Peter Owen, London.

Ezra Pound, trans., The Analects (New York: New Directions, n.d.), copyright 1950 by Ezra Pound. Selections reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and of Peter Owen, London.

E. E. Cummings, Eimi (New York: Grove Press, n.d.), copyright 1933 by E. E. Cummings.

Burton Watson, trans., Early Chinese Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1962), copyright 1962 by Columbia University Press. Material from Mr. Left's History, Policies of War, and selected prose-songs reprinted by permission of the publisher.

James I. Crump, Jr., trans., Intrigues (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964), copyright 1964 by the University of Michigan. Material from Policies of War reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Arthur Waley, trans., The Temple and Other Poems. "The Kao T'ang Fu" and "Poverty" reprinted by permission of George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.

Ezra Pound, Personae, copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound. Poems from "Country Music," "The Poetry of Exile," "Nature Poetry," and "The Golden Poets" reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Ezra Pound, Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound. Material in "Country Music," "The Poetry of Exile," "Nature Poetry," and "The Golden Poets" reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber, Ltd.

Arthur Waley, Translations from the Chinese. Poems in "Nature Poetry" section reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Arthur Waley, trans., 170 Chinese Poems. Poems in "Nature Poetry" section reprinted by permission of Constable and Company, Ltd.

Lenore Mayhew and William McNaughton, trans., A Gold Orchid (Rutland, Vt. & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1972).

Ch'en Shou-yi, Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction, copyright 1961 by the Ronald Press Co., New York. "Song of the Langya King" and translations in "Brothel Songs and Art Songs" by Ch'en and by John C. H. Wu reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Jerome Ch'en and Michael Bullock, trans., Poems of Solitude (London: Abelard-Schuman, 1960), copyright 1960 by Jerome Ch'en and Michael Bullock. Poems in "The Poetry of Exile" section reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Cyril Birch, trans., "Peach-Blossom Spring," copyright by Cyril Birch. Reprinted by permission of the translator.

Wang Chi-chen, trans., Traditional Chinese Tales, copyright 1944 by Wang Chi-chen. Material in "Strange Legends of T'ang" and "Short Stories of Sung" sections reprinted by permission of the translator.

Wang Chi-chen, trans., Contemporary Chinese Stories, copyright 1944 by Wang Chi-chen. Modern stories reprinted by permission of the translator.

Chang Yin-nan and Lewis C. Walmsley, trans., Poems by Wang Wei, copyright 1958 by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. Selections in "The Golden Poets" chapter reprinted by permission of Charles E. Tuttle Co.

C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh, trans., Why I Live On the Mountain, copyright 1958 by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh. Material in "The Golden Poets" and "Brothel Songs and Art Songs" sections reprinted by permission of the translators, C, H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh.

Henry H. Hart, trans., The West Chamber: A Medieval Drama, copyright 1936 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford University; copyright renewed 1964 by Henry H. Hart. Material from "Yuan Drama" section reprinted by permission of Stanford University Press.

Pearl S. Buck, trans., All Men Are Brothers, copyright 1933, 1937 by Pearl S. Buck. Sections reprinted by permission of Harold S. Ober Associates, Inc.

Arthur Waley, trans., Monkey, copyright 1943 by the John Day Company, Inc. Sections reprinted by permission of the John Day Co., Inc., publishers for the U.S., and George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., publishers for the rest of the world.

Clement Egerton, trans., The Golden Lotus. Sections reprinted by permission of Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd.

Florence and Isabel McHugh, trans., The Dream of the Red Chamber, copyright 1958 by Pantheon Books, Inc. Sections reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

Hsu Kai-yu, trans., Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry, copyright 1963 by Hsu Kai-yu. Selections reprinted by permission of Doubleday and Co., Inc.

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CHINESE LITERATURE