“SPRING LANDSCAPE”, a poem written over 1,000 years ago, is one of China’s most celebrated literary works. Composed by the 8th Century Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, it is memorised by every schoolchild in ...

As the Lunar New Year approaches, many Chinese families clean the front door of their home and hang poetry around it. This is a rich and age-old Chinese tradition, both cultural and religious. Chinese ...

EZRA POUND, an American modernist, described poetry as “news that stays news”. The versions of classical Chinese poetry he published in “Cathay” in 1915 were a declaration that, in a world of Model ts ...