This is the first volume of the revised version of Anthony Yu's four-volume English-language translation, originally published in 1983, although this revised version is from 2012. The revised version corrects various issues and updates the romanisation system from the dreaded Wade-Giles to the more accurate pinyin. Yu's introduction is nearly 100 pages long, and incredibly detailed.; this translation is the definitive academic version, with extensive notes and annotations, as well as inclusion of all the poetry and songs from the original.