Notes

1. d’Argencé, René-Yvon Lefebvre, Chinese Treasures from the Avery Brundage Collection, New York, 1960, p. 62.

2. Lee, Sherman E., A History of Far Eastern Art, New York, 1964, p. 64.

3. d’Argencé, p. 74.

4. Ibid., p. 56.

5. Kao, George, ed., Chinese Wit and Humor, New York, 1946, pp. xxix-xxx.

6. d’Argencé, p. 58.

7. Cahill, James, Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting, New York, 1967, p. 76.

8. Ibid., pp. 76-7.

9. Kao, p. xxxiv.

10. Watson, Burton, Early Chinese Poetry, New York, 1962, p. 240.

11. Hawkes, David, Ch’u Tz’u, Songs of the South, London, 1959, pp. 105-8

12. Liu, Shih Shun, One Hundred and One Chinese Poems, Hong Kong, 1967, p. 29.

13. Payne, Robert, ed., The White Pony, New York, 1947, p. 177.

14. Hsiung. S. I., tr., The West Chamber, New York, 1968, p. xxi.

15. Ibid., p. xxiv.

16. Wells, Henry W., Ancient Poetry from China, Japan and India, Columbia, S. C., 1968, p. 428.

17. The T’ien Hsia Monthly, December 1935, pp. 532-584.

18. Birch, Cyril, Anthology of Chinese Literature, New York, 1965, p. 405.

19. Waley, Arthur, tr., Monkey, London, 1942, p. 7.

20. Ibid., p. 277.

21. Kao, p. 205. The translation is by Chi-chen Wang.