After a failed push for political reform, the T’ang era’s greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, was exiled to the southern reaches of China. Thousands of m
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In hi
Renowned translator Pine brings into English the work of an ancient Chinese poet little-known in the West. Appended with thoroughly researched notes, an in-dept
Presents an assessment of Bei Dao as a Chinese poet. Through a reading of a selection of his poems, this book constructs a conceptual roadmap of Bei Dao's compl