Translator’s preface
Lecture 1 Wang Guowei, the Ci Genre, and the notion of Jingjie
Lecture 2 Distinctives of the Ci cenre, part I
Lecture 3 Layers of meaning in the Ci: double gender, double context
Lecture 4 Distinctives of the Ci genre, part II: major poets of the late Tang and Five Dynasties: Wen Tingyun and Wei Zhuang
Lecture 5 Major poets of the late Tang and Five Dynasties: Wen Tingyun and Feng Yansi
Lecture 6 Major poets of the Five Dynasties and Song: Li Yu, Liu Yong, and Su Shi
Lecture 7 Reflections on Ci aesthetics and Ci criticism
Works Cited
Appendix: Relevant passages from the Renjian cihua in Chinese
Index
Biography
Florence Chia-ying Yeh is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a master scholar and teacher of traditional Chinese literature. Her major works include, in Chinese, Tang Song ci shiqi jiang (Seventeen lectures on the ci poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties), Xiao ci da ya (The great elegance of ci poetry), Du Fu "Qiu xing ba shou" ji shuo (Collected lectures on Du Fu’s eight "Autumn Meditations"); and in English, Studies in Chinese Poetry (with James Hightower).
