From the publisher’s description:
Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
Mair, Victor H. (NHC Fellow, 1991–92), ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. ISBN 9780231074285.