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7 unusual facts about Chinese poetry


Empress Zhang Yao'er

Zhang Yao'er was described as being well-versed in mathematics, poetry, and the Chu Ci.

Flirting Scholar

Tong Pak Fu (Stephen Chow) is most famous, for having eight wives in addition to his expertise as an artist, poet, and calligrapher.

François Cheng

His first works were on Chinese poetry and painting, and in the late sixties and early seventies he worked closely with the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan on texts from the classical Chinese canon.

Him Mark Lai

These three formed the History of Chinese Detained on Island Project (HOC-DOI) to translate the Chinese poetry found on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station and to collect oral histories of detainees on Angel Island, based on the specific restrictions of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

Kafū Nagai

Kyūichirō was a scholar, bureaucrat, and businessman who later became known for his Chinese poetry.

Qi Jiguang

He also wrote a great number of poems and proses, which he compiled into the Collection of Zhizhi Hall (止止堂集), named after his study hall during his office in Jizhou.

Tao Te Ching

Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration.


Chih Ree Sun

Chih Ree Sun (May 6, 1923 – January 5, 2007) was a Chinese American physicist most noted with breaking new ground in modern physics as a professor at the State University of New York in Albany, he danced his way through life and spent time writing Chinese poetry after he retired.

Facing the Moon

Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu is a collection of English translations of Chinese poetry by the Tang dynasty poets Li Bai and Du Fu, translated by Keith Holyoak.

Tui bei tu

The book is supposed to contain clues to China's future conveyed through a series of 60 surreal drawings, each accompanied by an equally obscure poem.


see also

Chih Ree Sun

After retired from physics field, he became author of Chinese poetry whose love for ballroom dancing took him across Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Du Mu

Regarded as a major poet during a golden age of Chinese poetry, his name is often mentioned together with that of another renowned Late Tang poet, Li Shangyin, as the Little Li-Du (小李杜), in contrast to the Great Li-Du: Li Bai and Du Fu.

Tian Wen

The Heavenly Questions section of the Classical Chinese poetry work Chuci