How and Why to Learn Classical Chinese
Recently, a friend asked me how to go about teaching himself classical Chinese. He works for the U.S. State Department and speaks Mandarin very well, but now he wants to […]
Du Fu
Stephen Owen’s Translation of the Complete Works of Du Fu
De Gruyter has recently published Stephen Owen’s The Poetry of Du Fu, a translation of the complete works of (perhaps) China’s greatest poet. This marks a major step forward for […]
Pop Quiz: Related Person
I was recently searching on Baidupedia and found this list in the top-right hand corner of my page. They are the “related people” to the one whose page I was on. […]
Du Not
Book Review Du Fu’s Laments from the South By David R. McCraw If ever a book tried way too hard, it’s this one. Supposedly a translation and explication of 115 […]