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—from "Early Autumn, Miserable Heat, Papers Piling Up"; translation by William Hung. He moved on in the summer of 759; this has traditionally been ascribed to famine, but Hung believes that frustration is a more likely reason. He next spent around six weeks in Qinzhou (now Tianshui, Gansu province), where he wrote more than sixty poems. Chengdu In December 759, he briefly stayed in Tonggu ...
He is known for bringing modern standards of scholarship to the study of Chinese classical writings, for editing the Harvard-Yenching Index Series, and for his biography of Du Fu, Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet, which is considered a classic in the English world on the studies of Du Fu. [1]
Arthur Richard Valentine Cooper (1916–1988) was a British codebreaker, who became a translator of Chinese literature after retirement. He is best remembered for his translations of the Tang dynasty poets Li Bai and Du Fu, but is also known for his original research on the early Chinese script.
The second account was written by Tanlin (曇林; 506–574). Tanlin's brief biography of the "Dharma Master" is found in his preface to the Long Scroll of the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices, a text traditionally attributed to Bodhidharma and the first text to identify him as South Indian:
pinyin Wade-Giles Traditional Chinese name Simplified Chinese name Dates Notes An Zhengwen: An Cheng-wen: 安正文: 安正文: Ming dynasty: Biān Jǐngzhāo: Pien Ching-chao
The maze had been a subject for many ancient Chinese poets, such as Du Fu and Lu Yu. The maze and site are the setting for The Small Stones of Tu Fu, a short story by Brian Aldiss published in 1978. In the classic occult novel Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata, the representation of Kimon Tonkou magic is based on the stone sentinel maze. [2]
Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist.She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù, 青蒿素) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South ...
Li He (c. 790–791 – c. 816–817) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dynasty.His courtesy name was Changji, and he is also known as Guicai and Shigui.. He was prevented from taking the imperial examination due to a naming taboo.