Unit 1 The Poems Selected from The She King
Text A James Legge’s Version
Text B Wang Rongpei’s Version
Unit 2 The Selected Tang Poems
Text A Witter Bynner’s Version
Text B Xu Yuanchong’s Version
Unit 3 The Selected Song Lyrics
Text A Xu Yuanchong’s Version
Text B Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version
Unit 4 The Selected Yuan Qu Songs
Text A Gu Zhengkun’s Version
Text B Zhou Fangzhu’s Version
Unit 5 Instructor Wang Secretly Makes His Escape; Shi Jin Gets His Defences into Shape (excerpt)
Text A John Dent-Young & Alex Dent-Young’s Version
Text B Sidney Shapiro’s Version
Unit 6 Kongming Borrows Cao Cao’s Arrows Through a Ruse; Huang Gai Is Flogged Following a Secret Plan (excerpt)
Text A Moss Roberts’s Version
Text B C. H. Brewitt-Taylor’s Version
Unit 7 The Cadaver Demon Three Times Mocks Tripitaka Tang; The Holy Monk in Spite Banishes Handsome Monkey King (excerpt)
Text A Anthony C. Yu’s Version
Text B W.J.F. Jenner’s Version
Unit 8 Pursuing the Dream
Text A Cyril Birch’s Version
Text B Wang Rongpei’s Version
Unit 9 The Rejected Suit
Text A Chen Shih-Hsiang, Harold Acton & Cyril Birch’s Version
Text B Xu Yuanchong & Frank M. Xu’s Version
Unit 10 The Painted Skin
Text A Herbert A. Giles’s Version
Text B John Minford’s Version
Unit 11 Lin Ru-Hai Recommends a Private Tutor to His Brother-in-Law and Old Lady Jia Extends a Compassionate Welcome to
the Motherless Child (excerpt)
Text A David Hawkes’s Version
Text B Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version
Unit 12 At the Foot of Mount Li the Traces of an Ancient Emperor; By the Side of Lake Ming the Song of a Beautiful Girl (excerpt)
Text A Harold Shadick’s Version
Text B Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version
Key to the Exercises