Title: Finding them gone : visiting China's poets of the past /
Authors: Porter, Bill, 1943-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Porter, Bill, Travel China.; Poets, Chinese Biography; Chinese poetry History and criticism.; Literature and society China.; Chinese poetry Translations into English; Chinese poetry; Chinese poetry; Literature and society; Poets, Chinese.; China Description and travel.; China
Abstract: Translator and independent scholar Bill Porter, also known by his Chinese name, Red Pine, takes a fast-paced pilgrimage to China during which he pays homage to dozens of China's greatest poets by visiting their graves, or trying to, and performing idiosynchractic rituals with small cups of Kentucky whiskey. Includes biographical informaton, history, travel writings, over 200 classical poems in Chinese with English translations, and over 100 photographs.
Contents: Ch'en Tzu-ang, Confucius, anonymous (Book of poetry), Li Pai, Tu Fu -- Li Ch'ing-chao, Hsin Ch'i-chi -- Ts'ao Chih -- Juan Chi, Ch'eng Tzu-an, Pai Chu-yi, Ou-yang Hsiu, Su Tung-p'o -- Wei Ying-wu, Meng Chiao, Han Yu, Tu Fu, Pai Chu-yi -- Lao-tzu, Li Shang-yin, Wnag Wei, Juan Chi, Liu Yu-hsi -- Wang Wei, Shih-wu (Stonehouse), Liu Tsung-yuan, Tu Fu, Han Yu, Tu Mu -- Wei Ying-wu -- Li Pai, Tu Fu -- Huseh T'ao -- Tu Fu, Ch'en Tzu-ang -- Chia Tao, Wu-k'o -- Tu Fu, Li Pai -- Ch'u Yuan, Saotan Poetry Society -- Pai Chu-yi, Su Tung-p'o, Ou-yang Hsiu -- Meng Hao-jan, Wang Wei, Li Pai -- Li Pai -- Su Tung-p'o -- Tu fu, Ch'u Yuan -- Hsieh Ling-yun, Huang T'ing-chien, Han-shan, Wang Wei -- Wei Ying-wu, Pai Chu-yi, T'ao Yuan-ming -- Wang An-shih, Hsin Ch'i-chi -- Hsieh T'iao, Li Pai -- Wang An-shih, Fan Ch'eng-ta -- Chiao-jan, Shih-wu (Stonehouse) -- Meng Chiao, Chu Shu-chen -- Su Tung-p'o, Pai Chu-yi, Lin Ho-ching -- Lu You -- Li Pai, Hsieh Ling-yun -- Han-shan, Feng-kan, Shih-te (Cold Mountain & friends) -- Lexicon.