附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-391) and index.
Defining the song lyric voice: Questions of genre -- The formation of a distinct generic identity for Tz'u / Shuen-fu Lin -- Meaning the words: The genuine as a value in the tradition of the song lyric / Stephen Owen -- Song lyrics and the canon: A look at the anthologies of Tz'u / Pauline Yu -- Man's voice/woman's voice: Questions of gender -- Engendering the lyric: Her image and voice in song / Grace S. Fong -- The poetry of Li Ch'ing-chao: A woman author and women's authorship / John Timothy Wixted -- Liu Shih and Hsü Ts'an: Feminine or feminist? / Kang-i Sun Chang -- From voice to text: Questions of genealogy -- The problem of the repute of Tz'u during the Northern Sung / Ronald C. Egan -- Contexts of the song lyric in Sung times: Communication technology social change morality / Stuart H. Sargent -- Wang Kuo-wei's song lyrics in the light of his own theories / Yeh Chia-ying -- Messages of uncertain origin: The textual tradition of the Nan-T'ang erh-chu tz'u / Daniel Bryant.