A superb evocation of the Chinese master and his travels To our shame, few of us outside China know much about the country’s classical poetry. It doesn’t help that the way the names of leading poets ...

Michael Wood’s passion for all things Chinese was first sparked by his discovery of ancient poetry when he was a teenager (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Since the late 1970s, British historian, author and ...

Sichuan province is making great efforts to preserve and extend its historical legacies and cultural inheritance by launching innovative projects internationally. On Aug 31, Chengdu's Du Fu Thatched ...

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together, they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of Du Fu, China’s greatest poet. Show more Sir Ian ...

A statue of Du Fu sits in the Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Photo: IC After the redesign of his image in Chinese textbooks went trending on social media, famous Tang Dynasty ...

Not a biography, but instead a very coherent book of free translations, this new volume translated by Young (Black Lab) gives the sense of a life as lived, a life that belongs at once to Du Fu ...

LONDON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- British historian and TV presenter Michael Wood has said he is delighted to see that his newly released documentary about Du Fu, a prolific Chinese poet in Tang dynasty, has ...

A Harvard sinologist has completed the first English translation of the complete works of Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu. Stephen Owen spent eight years on The Poetry of Du Fu, a 3,000-page and six-volume ...

While Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Du Fu holds an irreplaceable position in China's literary history, globally he is not quite as well known as his contemporary Li Bai. However, that just may change as ...

THE SELECTED POEMS OF DU FU, translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 174 pp., $17.50 (paper). Du Fu (712-770 A.D.) is one of the most honored of Chinese poets. He has ...