Guobin Yang: Selected Publications Book Yang Guobin. 2003. Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (An annotated English translation and critical study of Wenxin Diaolong 文心雕龍 by Liu Xie 刘勰 c.A.D. 465-521). 2 Vols. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. (A publication of Library of Chinese Classics in English Translation 大中华文库)

Table of Contents

Volume I

Introduction
Chapter 1 Tracing the Origin to the Dao
Chapter 2 Venerating the Sages
Chapter 3 Modeling on the Classics
Chapter 4 A Proper Understanding of Apocrypha
Chapter 5 Evaluating the Sao, or the Songs of the South
Chapter 6 Illuminating Poetry
Chapter 7 Yuefu, or Poems of the "Music Bureau"
Chapter 8 Interpreting Fu,or Rhyme-prose
Chapter 9 Hymn and Eulogy
Chapter 10 Prayer and Oath
Chapter 11 Inscription and Admonition
Chapter 12 Mourning-Song and Epitaph
Chapter 13 Lament and Condolence
Chapter 14 Miscellaneous Writings
Chapter 15 Jesting Rhymes and Puzzles
Chapter 16 Historical Writings
Chapter 17 Philosophical Writings
Chapter 18 The Treatise and the Speech
Chapter 19 The Edict and the Decree of Enfeoffment
Chapter 20 The War Proclamation and the Dispatch
Chapter 21 The Sacrificial Address to Heaven and Earth
Chapter 22 Laudatory Address and Statement on Government Affairs
Chapter 23 Report and Memorandum
Chapter 24 The Discussion and the Examination Essay
Chapter 25 Epistolary Writing and Miscellaneous Records

Volume II

Chapter 26 Shensi, or Imagination
Chapter 27 Style and Natural Endowments
Chapter 28 "Wind" and "Bone"
Chapter 29 Continuity and Change
Chapter 30 Choosing the Style, or Natural Tendency
Chapter 31 Feeling and Art
Chapter 32 Casting and Cutting
Chapter 33 Prosody
Chapter 34 Paragraph and Sentence
Chapter 35 Parallelism
Chapter 36 Comparison and Metaphor
Chapter 37 Hyperbole
Chapter 38 Allusions
Chapter 39 Choosing the Right Word
Chapter 40 Concealed and Evident Excellence
Chapter 41 Flaws in Writing
Chapter 42 Nourishing qi, or Vital Energy
Chapter 43 Organization
Chapter 44 Summarizing the Art of Writing
Chapter 45 Literature and the Times
Chapter 46 The Forms of the Natural World
Chapter 47 Literary Talents
Chapter 48 An Appreciative Critic
Chapter 49 Moral Integrity
Chapter 50 My Intentions, or Postscript
Notes
Appendix I A Brief Chronology of Chinese History
Appendix II Glossary of Personal Names
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Translator