1. Introduction Part One Textual Research
2. A New Critical Assessment of the Evidential Research on Tao’s Birth Year
3. Family Background: Tao’s Humble Status and the Literary Representation
4. Textual Research on the Dating of Tao’s Literary Works Part Two Philosophical Significance
5. The Pursuit of Knowledge and Artistic Creation
6. Life Philosophy of “Spirit-Oriented Nature”
7. Intra-Textual and Extra-Textual Evidence for the Trilogy “Substance, Shadow, and Spirit” Part Three Rhetoric
8. Subtleties of Tao’s Literary Theory
9. The Art of Ci-Fu and Prose
10. A Comprehensive Survey of Tao’s Poetry Part Four The History of Tao’s Reception and Research: From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Song Dynasty
11. The Influence of Tao’s Poetry in the Evolution of the Poetic Style in the Jin, Song, and Southern and Northern
12. Reception History of Tao’s Thought and Image in the Tang and the Song Dynasties
13. Reception History of Tao’s Poetic Art in the Tang Dynasty
14. The Interpretation and Reception of Tao’s Poetic Art in the Song Dynasty
15. The Achievement of Evidential Research in Tao Yuanming Studies in the Song Dynasty
16. Coda