Roads Range Far: Selected Poems of Bai Chuan

Roads Range Far: Selected Poems of Bai Chuan
Author: Bai Chuan
Publisher: Red Publish
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9888270966

Roads range far; Bold crossing’ tween Life and Death! Vanguard rays mop the floor with lonesome grief. Enjoy the wonderful world of poetry, and you will know what beauty and reality are. Since the appearance of Roads Range Far: Selected Poems of Bai Chuan (道路遠近:白川詩選) in its original native language, there has been a demand for a serious attempt to transform its international outlook into an international readership. In response to this, the present English edition offers not a slavish translation. Instead, there is perhaps a true sense of creative effort, to say nothing of the venture itself being a rich and rewarding experience.

Stories and early poems of Bai Chua

Stories and early poems of Bai Chua
Author: Bai Chuan
Publisher: Red Publish
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9888380265

Originally written back in 1991, the first half, five short stories, remains special, being inspired by experiences of growing up, travel, and interactions with the animal world, even the eponymous centipede did exist! As for the poems (written circa 1978 – 86), some of these were motivated by the Sino-British talks and Hong Kong’s uncertain future, not to mention the astronomical interest associated with another group gripped by the enthusiasm aroused by planetary exploration. The others turn over themes of nature and life. Note: In the first story, the region depicted has been administratively incorporated into the new Uonuma city. Slow business has led to shorter ski season and the shutting of lesser-known ski grounds.

The Space-time Trilogy

The Space-time Trilogy
Author: Bai Chuan
Publisher: Red Publish
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9888380524

Originally written over a period from about 1979 to the early 1980s, the first in the trilogy was inspired by the theatre of the absurd and focused on the nature of human relationships across the fabric of space-time. The second, written in the late 1980s and the following early 1990s, was focused on repercussions of events across space-time; and then the third, written in 2000 and after, more or less concludes the trilogy with elements of the preceding two interwoven and coming to grips with the vicissitudes of life.

Potty Little Man

Potty Little Man
Author: Bai Chuan
Publisher: Red Publish
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9881391997

From his court Jupiter keeps staying away, Missed by fellow gods; Atlas the culprit at large---- ----The Tower of Pisa: A Sequel Since the appearance of POTTY LITTLE MAN SELECTED POEMS OF BAI CHUAN III (《人渺小:白川詩選三》) in its original native language, there has been a demand for a serious attempt to transform its international outlook into an international readership. In response to this, the present English edition offers not a slavish translation. Instead, there is perhaps a true sense of creative effort, to say nothing of the venture itself being a rich and rewarding experience.

Zen Poems

Zen Poems
Author: Peter Harris
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1999-03-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0375405526

The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan.

Critical Readings on Tang China

Critical Readings on Tang China
Author: Paul W. Kroll
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004380167

The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.

Chinese Poetic Modernisms

Chinese Poetic Modernisms
Author: Paul Manfredi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9004402896

This volume of fourteen essays explores Chinese poetic modernism in all its facets, from its origins in the 1920s through 21st century manifestations. Modernisms in the plural reflects the complexity of the ideas and forms which can be associated with this literary-historical term. The volume’s contributors take a variety of focus points, from literary groups such as “9 Leaves” or “Bamboo Hat,” to individuals such as modernist sonneteer Feng Zhi 冯至, or Taiwan experimentalist Xia Yu 夏宇 (Hsia Yü), and Hong Kong modernist Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉钧, to non-biographically oriented chapters concerning modernist language, poetry and visual art, among other issues. Collectively, the volume endeavors to present as complete a picture of modernist practice in Chinese poetry as possible.

The Selected Poems of Li Po

The Selected Poems of Li Po
Author: Bai Li
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1996
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811213233

There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.

The Late Tang

The Late Tang
Author: Stephen Owen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Chinese poetry
ISBN: 9780674033283

Owen analyzes the redirection of poetry following the deaths of the major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their poetic styles. In the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to assume the form it would have for the next millennium--a repertoire of styles, genres, and the voices of past poets.