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David Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three... read more

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Each year on this auspicious day, alone and foreign here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen: far away, I can almost see you reaching the summit, dogwood berries woven into sashes, short one person.

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  1. Wei Wang (Author)
 

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