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Introduction: The Making of Modern Chinese Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Autumn Evening on the River
As the Sun Slides Down behind the Mountain
If I Weren't Such a Coward
A Night Walk through Jurimatsubara
Snow on the Emei Mountains
A Confrontation with the Moon
Myriad Stars 10, 28, 48, 95
Spring Rivulets 24, 25, 33, 66, 105, 112, 118, 153, 169, 182
Don't Trample This Flower
Distraction 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12
On Hearing the Ritual Chant of Repentance at Tianning Temple, Changzhou
Beggar, It Serves You Right!
Dusk: Six Views from a Car Window
A Gathering of Chrysanthemums
Spring Landscape with a Small Temple
Sailing Past Zhenjiang Pavilion
Sonnet 1: Deep Down We Are Preparing
Sonnet 2: Whatever We Can Shed
Sonnet 16: We Stand on a Lofty Mountain Peak
Sonnet 18: Occasionally We Have Spent an Intimate Night
Sonnet 26: We Tread Our Daily Path
Sonnet 27: From a Stretch of Formless, Overflowing Water
To a Friend at the End of the Year
Our History Is Rushing Forward (i)
North China Is Ablaze (iv): Cities
Inscribed on a Prison Cell Wall
To Endure as a Witness (ii)
Impromptu: At the Tomb of Xiao Hong
Pipesmoking Psychoanalysis
PART 4: "PEASANTS AND SOLDIERS" POETRY
The Song of Soul Mountain
The International Cemetery
On a Chilean Cigarette Package
Before the Troops Marched Off
Five Short Poems, 1, Rickshaw
The Battle Hymn of Shanghai, I
Elegy for My Daughter Sufei
Governor Yan Xishan's Collector of the Grain Tax
PART 5: THE NINE LEAVES POETS
A Common Soldier Left Dead at the Side of the Road
The Season's Mournful Face
The Girl Who Steals Ears of Wheat
A Knight's Love: A Dialogue
A Painting of Running Water
The Radio Strangles Spring
Spring Comes to One Sick of Logic
The Pearl and the Seeker after Pearls
On Reading a Midsummer Biography
The Walls of the Ancient City of Gaochang
The Long Cry of the Peacock
A Porcelain Bas Relief of Bodidharma Walking across the Sea
What the Painted Eyebrow Sings
Golden Rice for Threshing
Dipping My Feet in the Water
Two Lotus Flowers: On a Painting by Zhang Daqian
Apparition on a Winter Afternoon: A Painting
Portrait of an Imperial Maid of Honour by Wu Guxiang