Xin Qiji: Renowned Chinese Poet and Military General
One of the most significant facts about Xin Qiji is that he was a multifaceted individual, excelling as a Chinese poet, calligrapher, and military general during the Southern Song dynasty, which lasted from 1127 to 1279. Born in 1140, Xin Qiji's life and works are a testament to the rich cultural and literary heritage of China during thi…
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While sitting outside to rest my hand, I finally got around to reading @llonkrebboj’s exquisite Li He fic, Neither moths nor the silverfish: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52274104
Please do read it if you want to visit Tang Luoyang and Chang’an, to sit in vividly-imagined scenes that might well have been the seeds for immortal verses, to have your heartstrings plucked for a 24-year-old youth who feels his days are numbered, or to meet a lovely donkey OC.
静夜思
床前明月光，
疑是地上霜。
举头望明月，
低头思故乡。
Thoughts in the Silent Night
- by Li Bai
Moonlight reflects off the front of my bed.
Could it actually be the frost on the ground?
I look up to view the bright moon,
And look down to reminisce about my hometown.
This is an amazing #AAPI story!!! 👏👏👏
My father (b. 1913 d. 1989) read #ChinesePoetry & I'm sure would have enjoyed the class.
I've asked a better connected & more fluent #Cantonese speaking friend of mine to tell her friends about this article & the #Chinese poetry class to see if she can help to add more as well as younger members to the class to keep it going.
Greatly enjoying this wonderful interview with the poet and translator Susan Wan Dolling, on the Chinese Literature Podcast: https://chineseliteraturepodcast.libsyn.com/interview-with-susan-wan-dolling-translator-of-chinese-poetry
Here’s Wan Dolling’s website: https://sites.google.com/view/susanwandolling/home
I certainly hope to buy her recent collections of Tang and Song poetry!
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Today, Lee gets to chat with , Hong-Kong-American poet, novelist and translator. She recently published her latest book of Song poetry translations, , but she has long been working on translating Chinese poetry into an English that does what is hard to do, that preserves the music that you hear in the Chinese original. If you want to check out more of her translations, check out (volume 1 of her Song poetry translations), (volume 1 of her My China in Tang Poetry series), (volume 2 of her My China in Tang Poetry series) and (volume 3 of her My China in Tang Poetry series). Also, my book, China's Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn't Want You to Read is out! You can purchase a copy of it here from my publisher: Or you can purchase it on Amazon . If you are interested, check out the nice things smart people have said about the book .
BDG feature: Finding Them Gone: A Conversation with Bill Porter/Red Pine on Pilgrimage, Poetry, and the Art of Showing Up
🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/25fc6psu
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Aboard this boat of rotten wood
gathering fruit of the nimba tree
here we are in the open sea
where the waves never cease
only one-day's food along
shore a billion miles away
what's the cause of our distress
alas it's due to bitterness
— Cold Mountain (Han Shan)
from "The Collected Songs of
Cold Mountain" - Red Pine (tr.)
Dense fog and clouds too thick to push away
suddenly appear and suddenly depart
clever people can wear themselves out
the sun lights the rocks the same as before
— Stonehouse
from "The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse" -Red Pine (tr.)
Apropos of this post earlier today, I watched Ward Serrill’s wonderful documentary film ‘Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation’ this afternoon. I must have watched it at least 5 or 6 times now since its release and I always get something new from it.
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From writer/director Ward Serrill and producer Rocky Friedman, the Red Pine Movie, "Dancing with the Dead: The Life and Times of Red Pine" is about Bill Porter. Bill goes by the pen name Red Pine and has published over thirty books about his travels in China, as well as translations of an
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