ContentsUnit 1 The Poems Selected from The She King1Text A James Legge’s Version3Text B Wang Rongpei’s Version23Unit 2 The Selected Tang Poems32Text A Witter Bynner’s Version33Text B Xu Yuanchong’s Version42Unit 3 The Selected Song Lyrics46Text A Xu Yuanchong’s Version47Text B Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version59Unit 4 The Selected Yuan Qu Songs63Text A Gu Zhengkun’s Version65Text B Zhou Fangzhu’s Version77Unit 5 Instructor Wang Secretly Makes His Escape; Shi Jin Gets His Defences into Shape excerpt81Text A John Dent-Young & Alex Dent-Young’s Version82Text B Sidney Shapiro’s Version94Unit 6 Kongming Borrows Cao Cao’s Arrows Through a Ruse; Huang Gai Is Flogged Following a Secret Plan excerpt99Text A Moss Roberts’s Version100Text B C. H. Brewitt-Taylor’s Version112Unit 7 The Cadaver Demon Three Times Mocks Tripitaka Tang; The Holy Monk in Spite Banishes Handsome Monkey King excerpt119Text A Anthony C. Yu’s Version121Text B W.J.F. Jenner’s Version131Unit 8 Pursuing the Dream136Text A Cyril Birch’s Version138Text B Wang Rongpei’s Version155Unit 9 The Rejected Suit164Text A Chen Shih-Hsiang, Harold Acton & Cyril Birch’s Version166Text B Xu Yuanchong & Frank M. Xu’s Version179Unit 10 The Painted Skin186Text A Herbert A. Giles’s Version188Text B John Minford’s Version197Unit 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 excerpt202Text A David Hawkes’s Version204Text B Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version213Unit 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 excerpt217Text A Harold Shadick’s Version219Text B Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version229Key to the Exercises233