Nicholas Morrow Williams, Ph.D. (2010), University of Washington, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Arizona State University. He is the translator of Elegies of Chu (Oxford World’s Classics, 2022) and author of numerous other works on classical Chinese poetry.Jao Tsung-i (1917–2018) was a prolific scholar and polymathic painter, poet, and calligrapher. Born in Chaozhou, he spent most of his career in Hong Kong, where he won international recognition as a leading interpreter and representative of Chinese cultural tradition.

• ContentsCollected Works of Jao Tsung-i: Xuantang Anthology—Series IntroductionList of Tables and FiguresEditor’s IntroductionOriginal Titles and Sources for Text Translated in This Volume1 Literature and Spirit: in Conversation with Shi Yidui1 The Meaning of Shenming2 The Function of Divination3 The Verification of Spirits2 Sudden Enlightenment and Gradual Enlightenment: in Conversation with Shi Yidui1 The Sixth Patriarch of Chan and the Rise of Chan Poetry2 Complete Penetration without Obstacle, Chan Mind Just So3 A Purified World, Ice Colder Than Water3 Chinese Characters and Poetics1 Starting with Ezra Pound2 The Earliest Signs and Chinese Characters3 The Earliest Rhymed Narrative Poems4 Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic Words5 The Development of Xingsheng zi and Their Aesthetic Functions6 The Principles of Character Formation and the Concept of Lei 類 (Category)7 The Conventions of Ellipsis and Reduplication8 Parallelism and Tonal Prosody9 The Development of Chinese Characters from a Functional Medium to an Aesthetic One and the Simplification of Poetry10 Conclusion4 Confucian Learning and the Art of Rhetoric1 Verbal Refinement and Establishing Sincerity Comprise the Union between the Interior and Exterior2 Knowing People from Their Words3 Rhetoric and Pragmatics5 On the “Wen fu” and Music1  2  3  4  5  6 6 Linked Pearls and Logic: a Case of Intercultural Misunderstanding7 Suyab, the True Birthplace of Li Bai1 Location of Suyab2 Suyab Was Not Located in Qarasahr3 New Materials about Suyab4 Tibet and Suyab5 Suyab and the Western Turks6 Speculations about Why Li Bai’s Father Returned to Sichuan7 Li Bai’s Own Account of His Background8 Conclusion8 On the Poetry of Gu YanwuBibliographyIndex