| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| 1. Philosophical Debate: East and West | 第13-20页 |
| 1.1 Western philosoppy: being, becoming,nothingness | 第13-16页 |
| 1.1.1 The primacy of being in Classical western philosophy | 第13页 |
| 1.1.2 The intellectual dilemma in Modern western philosophy | 第13-16页 |
| 1.1.2.1 Nietzsche'sBecoming | 第13-15页 |
| 1.1.2.2 Heidegger: Being and Nothingness | 第15-16页 |
| 1.2 Chinese Vision of universe: A dynamic harmony of Being and Nonthingnes | 第16-20页 |
| 1.2.1 Confucianism:Moral and Social Being | 第16-17页 |
| 1.2.2 Daoism: The dialectic monism of You and Wu(有与无Being and Nonbeing) | 第17-18页 |
| 1.2.3 Chan Buddhism: Non-duality of Form and Emptiness(色与空Being and Nothingness) | 第18-20页 |
| 2 Foundation of Poetry: Philosophical Orientation | 第20-40页 |
| 2.1 Truth | 第20-28页 |
| 2.1.1 Wang Wei: Non-differentiation of ultimate and relative truth | 第20-24页 |
| 2.1.2 Stevens:supreme fietion as ultimate truth | 第24-28页 |
| 2.2 Self | 第28-40页 |
| 2.2.1 Wang Wei: Non-self as true self | 第28-33页 |
| 2.2.2 Stevens:Multiple Self as True Self | 第33-40页 |
| 3 The Becoming of Poetry:Aesthetic Strategy | 第40-62页 |
| 3.1 Ethereal realm(空灵之境)and abstraction | 第40-54页 |
| 3.1.1 Yi Jing(意境): The Essence of Chinese Poetic Aesthetics | 第40-43页 |
| 3.1.2 Wang Wei's ethereal realm(空灵之境):the non-differentiation of Being and Nothingness | 第43-48页 |
| 3.1.3 Stevens' abstraction: The Coexistent of Nothingness and Being | 第48-54页 |
| 3.2 Capturing images with focused mind(凝情取象)and imagination | 第54-62页 |
| 3.2.1 WangWei: Capturing images with focused mind(凝情取象)and decreation | 第54-58页 |
| 3.2.2 Stevens:Reality and Imagination | 第58-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-67页 |
