Maps and Figures
Dates of Chinese Dynasties and Selected Rulers
Maps

Introduction

A Millennium of XiaoXiang Laments

Sage-King Shun and His Faithful Wives
Qu Yuan
Song Yu
Jia Yi
Wang Yi
Yu Xin
ShenQuanqi
ZhangYue
Li Bo
Du Fu
Han Yu
Liu Zongyuan

A Defining Moment: Shenzong's Reign (1067-85)

Early Song Political Culture
Emperor Shenzong Implements the New Policies
A Painting Celebrates New Beginnings (1072)
A Painting Admonishes the Emperor (1074)
The Case of the Loyal Official Song Di
The Luoyang Exiles
The Crow Terrace Poetry Trial (1079)

Infusing Painting with Poetry

The Importance of Du Fu
Encoding Poetry
Song Di's Creation of the Eight Views of XiaoXiang
Literary Characteristics of the Eight Views of XiaoXiang Titles

Exile, Return, and Dissonance

Unjust Exile: Wild Geese Descend
Reprieve: A Sail Returns
Mountain Markets and Du Fu's Autumn Day in Kui Prefecture

Confronting Melancholy: Evening, Night, and Autumn

River and Sky, Evening Snow
Autumn Moon over Dongting
Night Rain on Xiaoxiang
Evening Bellfrom a Mist-Shrouded Temple
Fishing Village in Evening Glow
Tree Leaves Fall
Level-Distance Landscapes

Su Shi and Wang Shen: Misty River, Layered Peaks

Su Shi Encodes a Poem
Wang Shen Rhymes a Response
Su Shi Writes After Drinking
Wang Shen Responds with Thanks
Misty River, Layered Peaks, Attributed to Wang Shen
A Manuscript of the Pour Poems

Huang Tingjian's Laments

Career and Political Exiles
Wind in the Pines, 1102
Calligraphy
Monk Zhongren's Painted Plums, 1104

Proclaiming Harmony: The Court's Visual Rhetoric

Huizong's Ascension
Paintings Proclaiming Harmony
Era of Peace and Order
Writing for the Emperor: Guo Si and Han Zhuo

Wang Hong's Eight Views of XiaoXiang

The Chan Monk Juefan Huihong
Wang Hong Paints Like a Poet
Audience

New Uses of the Past

Dream Journey over XiaoXiang Ma Yuan and the Eight Views of XiaoXiang
Ma Yuan and Zhang Zi's Poetry Gathering
A Succession Crisis, a Banishment, and Spurious Learning
"Seventh Month" from the Odes of Bin
The Buddhist Monks Muqi and Yujian

Epilogue

Appendixes Du Fu Texts and Translations
SuShi's and Wang Shen's Matching of Du Fu's Rhymes
Huang Tingjian's Matching of Du Fu's Rhymes
Eight Views of XiaoXiang Poetry by Buddhist Monks

Reference Matter

Notes
Bibliography
Character List
Index

Alfreda Murck is an independent scholar living in Beijing.