FOREWORD
PREFACE
BOOK ONE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (1036-1061)
Chapter One Literary Patriotic Duke
Chapter Two Meishan
Chapter Three Childhood and Youth
Chapter Four The Examinations
Chapter Five Father and Sons
BOOK TWOEARLY MANHOOD (1062-1079)
Chapter Six Gods, Devils, and Men
Chapter Seven Experiment in State Capitalism
Chapter Eight The Bull-headed Premier
Chapter Nine The Evil That Men Do
Chapter Ten The Two Brothers
Chapter Eleven Poets, Courtesans, and Monks
Chapter Twelve Poetry of Protest
Chapter Thirteen The Yellow Tower
Chapter Fourteen Arrest and Trial
BOOK THREE MATURITY (1O8O-1O93)
Chapter Fifteen Farmer of the Eastern Slope
Chapter Sixteen Poet of the Red Cliff
Chapter Seventeen Yoga and Alchemy
Chapter Eighteen Years of Wanderings
Chapter Nineteen Empresss Favorite
Chapter Twenty The Art of Painting
Chapter Twenty-one The Art of Getting Out of Power
Chapter Twenty-two Engineering and Famine Relief
Chapter Twenty-three Friend of the People
BOOK FOUR YEARS OF EXILE (1094-1101)
Chapter Twenty-four Second Persecution
Chapter Twenty-five Home in Exile
Chapter Twenty-six Romance with Chaoyun
Chapter Twenty-seven Outside China
Chapter Twenty-eight The End
APPENDICES
Appendix A Chronological Summary
Appendix B Bibliography and Sources
Appendix C Biographical Reference List
Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table
English Works by Lin Yutang