Taiji Sommeil
Lying Awake in the Rain: What Lu You's Sleeples...
Lu You was the most prolific poet in Chinese history — nearly ten thousand poems, many of them written in the sleepless hours of the night. His extraordinary attention to...
Lying Awake in the Rain: What Lu You's Sleeples...
Lu You was the most prolific poet in Chinese history — nearly ten thousand poems, many of them written in the sleepless hours of the night. His extraordinary attention to...
The Dream Memoir: What Zhang Dai's Lost World T...
Zhang Dai was the greatest prose stylist of the late Ming Dynasty — a connoisseur of extraordinary refinement who lost everything in the fall of his dynasty and spent his...
The Dream Memoir: What Zhang Dai's Lost World T...
Zhang Dai was the greatest prose stylist of the late Ming Dynasty — a connoisseur of extraordinary refinement who lost everything in the fall of his dynasty and spent his...
The Poet Who Carried the World to Bed: What Du ...
Du Fu is considered China's greatest poet — a man of extraordinary compassion who spent much of his life in poverty, illness, and displacement, unable to sleep for worry about...
The Poet Who Carried the World to Bed: What Du ...
Du Fu is considered China's greatest poet — a man of extraordinary compassion who spent much of his life in poverty, illness, and displacement, unable to sleep for worry about...
The Scent of Sleep: What Wen Tingyun's Sensory ...
Wen Tingyun, the founding master of the Huajian — Flower Between — school of Chinese poetry, wrote verse so saturated with sensory detail that reading it feels like entering a...
The Scent of Sleep: What Wen Tingyun's Sensory ...
Wen Tingyun, the founding master of the Huajian — Flower Between — school of Chinese poetry, wrote verse so saturated with sensory detail that reading it feels like entering a...
How Much Sorrow Can One Night Hold: What Li Yu'...
Li Yu was the last emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty — a man who lost a kingdom and found, in that loss, some of the most emotionally devastating poetry...
How Much Sorrow Can One Night Hold: What Li Yu'...
Li Yu was the last emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty — a man who lost a kingdom and found, in that loss, some of the most emotionally devastating poetry...
If Life Were Only as at First Meeting: What Nal...
Nalan Xingde was a Qing Dynasty imperial guard, a nobleman of extraordinary privilege, and one of China's most beloved poets of loss and longing. His sleepless nights — documented in...
If Life Were Only as at First Meeting: What Nal...
Nalan Xingde was a Qing Dynasty imperial guard, a nobleman of extraordinary privilege, and one of China's most beloved poets of loss and longing. His sleepless nights — documented in...