I would join many others who point to Tu Fu (a.k.a. Du Fu). He wrote 16 centuries ago during the Tang Dynasty, a golden era of Chinese painting, calligraphy, and poetry.

Specifically, it examines the poetics of Martin Heidegger and Paul Celan and suggests that their theorization of pain and suffering works well in the interpretation of Du Fu. Established in 1978 ...

Du Fu's poems on the local culture of the Three Gorges region have received little attention in English-language; however, they furnish much-needed context for the more famous late works, and repay ...

On this scroll, Chen Shun wrote out the last three from a series of five poems, Thoughts on Ancient Sites by the famous Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770), which clearly inspired an exuberant emotional ...

To learn about China's greatest poet, Michael Wood goes back to school! A group of enthusiastic high school kids give Michael a guided tour around their school grounds where incredibly they show ...