Introduction
Part One: The Eruption Period
Chapter One: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts Before Confucius
Part Two: The Period of Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought< /p>
Chapter 2 Overview
Chapter 3 Confucius’ Thoughts on Music Aesthetics
Chapter 4 Mozi’s Thoughts on Music Aesthetics
Fifth Chapter Mencius's Musical Aesthetic Thoughts
Chapter Six: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in "Laozi"
Chapter Seven: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in "Zhuangzi"
Chapter Chapter 8: Xunzi’s Musical Aesthetic Thoughts
Chapter 9: Shang Yang’s and Han Fei’s Musical Aesthetic Thoughts
Chapter 10: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Guanzi and Lu’s Spring and Autumn Annals< /p>
Chapter 11: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Other Confucian Classics
Part Three: The Han Dynasty
Chapter 12 Overview
Chapter Chapter 13: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in "Xinyu", "New Books", and "Han Shi Waizhuan"
Chapter 14: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in "Huainanzi"
Chapter 14 Chapter 15: Dong Zhongshu’s Music Aesthetic Thoughts
Chapter 16: Music Aesthetic Thoughts in “Legends of Music”
Chapter 17: Music Aesthetic Thoughts in “Historical Records”
Chapter 18: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in "Book of Rites"
Chapter 19: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Writings during the Period of the Han Dynasty
Chapter 20: "Book of Han" "Music Aesthetic Thoughts in"
Chapter 21: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in the Musical Fu of the Han Dynasty
Chapter 22: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Other Writings of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Part 4 Wei and Jin - Sui and Tang Dynasties
Chapter 23 Overview
Chapter 24 Wang Bi’s Thoughts on Musical Aesthetics
Chapter 2 Chapter 25: Ruan Ji’s thoughts on music aesthetics
Chapter 26: Ji Kang’s thoughts on music aesthetics
Chapter 27: Tao Qian’s thoughts on music aesthetics
Chapter 28: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Other Writings of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
Chapter 29: Wei and Jin—Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Buddhist Classics of the Sui and Tang Dynasties
Chapter 30 Zhang Yang Jian and Li Shimin’s musical aesthetic thoughts
Chapter 31 Bai Juyi’s musical aesthetic thoughts
Chapter 32 Musical aesthetic thoughts in other works of the Tang Dynasty
Part Five: Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties
Chapter 33 Overview
Chapter 34 Fan Zhongyan and others’ musical aesthetic thoughts
Third Chapter 15: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts of Taoists in the Song Dynasty
Chapter 36: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts in Other Works of the Song Dynasty
Chapter 37: Li Zhi’s Musical Aesthetic Thoughts
>Chapter 38: Musical Aesthetic Thoughts of Zhang Qi and others
Chapter 39: Xu Shangying’s Musical Aesthetic Thoughts
Chapter 40: Taoist Thoughts of Ming and Qing Dynasties Music Aesthetic Thoughts
Chapter 41: Music Aesthetic Thoughts of Li Yu and Xu Dachun
Chapter 42: Music Aesthetic Thoughts of Other Music Theories in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Appendix 1 Index of papers on the history of Chinese music aesthetics
Appendix 2 Bibliography of research on the history of Chinese music aesthetics
Postscript to the first edition
Postscript to the revised edition