1. Comparative perspectives on literary theory: Periodization in the arts and patterns of change in traditional Chinese literary history / Maureen Robertson --
Formal distinctions in Chinese literary theory / Pauline Yu --
2. The human body and artistic values: The idea of the human in Mencian thought: an approach to Chinese aesthetics / Tu Wei-ming --
The human body as a microcosmic source of microcosmic values in calligraphy / John Hay --
3. Images of nature: Concept of Lei and Kan-lei in early Chinese art theory / Kiyohiko Munakata --
Tsung Ping's essay on painting landscapes and the "landscape Buddhism" of Mount Lu / Susan Bush --
The earthly paradise: religious elements on Chinese landscape art / Lothar Ledderose --
4. Music theory and poetics of the six dynasties: Early Chinese music and the origins of aesthetic terminology / Kenneth DeWoskin --
Chinese "lyric criticism" in the six dynasties / Kang-I Sun Chang --
The nature of evaluation in the Shih-pi̓n (gradings of poets) by Chung Hung (A.D. 469-518) / John Timothy Wixted --
5. Two Sung views of the arts: Su Shih's reading of the Chung yung / Christian Murck --
Chiang Ku̕ei's treatises on poetry and calligraphy / Shuen-fu Lin --
6. Issues in Ming criticism: Alternate routes to self-realization in Ming theories of poetry / Richard John Lynn --
The panoply of images: a reconsideration of the literary theory of the Kung-an school / Jonathan Chaves --
The "wild and heterodox school" of Ming painting / Richard Barnhart --
"I-pi̓n in later painting criticism" / Susan E. Nelson.
