aboriginal, 47, 94, 207, 279–280

adjutant, 67, 235

aesthetics, 72–74, 96, 178, 195

An Lushan Rebellion, 1, 23, 39, 43, 47, 50, 62–63, 65–66, 75, 77–78, 120, 125, 131, 136, 140, 145, 167, 185, 189, 191, 196–197, 202–204, 206, 209, 211, 217–218, 221, 237, 248, 274, 309

post-Rebellion, 3, 5, 134–135, 198, 200–201, 208, 311, 316

ancient colors (guse), 112–113

animals, 34, 54, 100, 109, 165, 172

ape, 230, 280

bird, 6, 57, 98, 112–113, 139, 280, 284, 288, 307

crocodile, 114–115

horse, 55, 68, 80–82, 87, 122, 168, 191, 264, 269, 271, 303–304

insect, 11, 279–280

snake, 90–91, 207–208, 232, 237, 241

tiger, 142, 173, 207, 247, 291, 293

turtle, 110, 114–115, 161–163, 183, 191–192

whale, 110, 112–113

Arnold, Matthew, 116, 127

autobiographical, 91, 181, 236, 248, 264–265, 312–313

Ba, 121, 278–279, 281–282

Bai Juyi, 4–6, 11, 24–25, 43, 51, 126, 131, 173–174, 177, 189–190, 235, 255, 258, 261–264, 268, 272–281, 290–291, 295–296, 298, 300–301, 303–305, 313, 315

“Ballad of the Pipa”, 256

“In Response to Weizhi”, 294

“New Music Bureau”, 155

“Poem of One Hundred Rhymes Sent to Weizhi in Place of a Letter, A”, 285

“Record of the Cold Spring Pavilion”, 101–102

“Sacrifice to the Mount Gaoting God”, 175

“Song of Enduring Sorrow”, 256

“Three Poems Sent to Weizhi”, 283, 287

and Yuan Zhen. See under Yuan-Bai

Bai Xingjian, 271–272, 275–276

“Record of Three Dreams”, 268, 270

Baiyue, 114–115

Ban Gu, 36, 38

Book of Han, 35

“Rhapsody on the Two Capitals”, 35

“Treatise on Geography”, 35, 42

banishment, 26, 97–98, 197, 199, 232, 235–237, 248, 276, 313

barbarian, 47, 49–50, 61, 63, 101–102, 154, 191, 206–207, 221, 233, 238, 244, 261, 279–280, 290, 298

Western Plain Barbarians, 211–213

Big Dipper, 83