Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Phonetic Equivalents | p. xix |
Map: China, CA. 1645 | p. 2 |
Vernacular Literature in China | p. 3 |
Time Line | p. 6 |
Monkey (Chinese) | p. 10 |
Chapter I | p. 10 |
Chapter XIV | p. 16 |
Chapter XV | p. 24 |
Chapter XVI | p. 29 |
Chapter XVII | p. 33 |
Chapter XVIII | p. 37 |
Chapter XIX | p. 42 |
Chapter XX | p. 52 |
Chapter XXI | p. 61 |
The Peach Blossom Fan (Chinese) | p. 74 |
Prologue, 1684 | p. 74 |
From Part I | p. 76 |
The Storyteller | p. 76 |
The Singing-Master | p. 83 |
The Disrupted Ceremonies | p. 88 |
The Play Observed | p. 93 |
A Visit to the Beauty | p. 98 |
The Fragrant Couch | p. 105 |
The Rejected Trousseau | p. 110 |
Summary. Scenes 8-22 | p. 114 |
From Part II | p. 115 |
The Message on the Fan | p. 115 |
Summary. Scenes 24-27 | p. 120 |
The Painting Inscribed | p. 120 |
The Club Suppressed | p. 125 |
The Return to the Hills | p. 130 |
Summary. Scenes 31-39 | p. 136 |
Entering the Way | p. 136 |
Summary | p. 145 |
The Story of the Stone (Chinese) | p. 148 |
p. 148 | |
From Chapter 1 | p. 148 |
Summary. Chapters 1-25 | p. 154 |
Chapter 26 | p. 155 |
p. 167 | |
Chapter 27 | p. 167 |
Chapter 28 | p. 179 |
Chapter 29 | p. 197 |
Chapter 30 | p. 212 |
Chapter 31 | p. 222 |
Chapter 32 | p. 233 |
Chapter 33 | p. 242 |
Chapter 34 | p. 251 |
Summary. Chapters 35-96 | p. 260 |
from Chapter 96 | p. 260 |
Chapter 97 | p. 263 |
Summary. Chapters 98-120 | p. 279 |
Map: The Ottoman Empire, 1280-1683 | p. 280 |
The Ottoman Empire: Celebi's Book of Travels | p. 281 |
Time Line | p. 285 |
The Book of Travels (Turkish) | p. 286 |
The City of Boudonitza | p. 286 |
Map: Europe, Ca. 1740 | p. 294 |
The Enlightenment in Europe | p. 295 |
Time Line | p. 302 |
Tartuffe (French) | p. 306 |
Phaedra (French) | p. 364 |
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Spanish) | p. 405 |
Gulliver's Travels | p. 433 |
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson | p. 433 |
The Publisher to the Reader | p. 436 |
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms | p. 437 |
A Modest Proposal | p. 483 |
The Rape of the Lock | p. 492 |
An Essay on Man. Epistle I | p. 510 |
Candide, or Optimism (French) | p. 520 |
Map: Japan, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries | p. 582 |
The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan | p. 583 |
Time Line | p. 586 |
The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love (Japanese) | p. 591 |
The Narrow Road of the Interior (Japanese) | p. 607 |
Bewitched (Japanese) | p. 632 |
A Note on Translation | p. A1 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. A13 |
Index | p. A15 |
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