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 ...
Chinese poetry today is divisive. One view regards it as highly invigorating — so much so that some have proclaimed the advent of a “golden age.” Others, however, believe that poetry these days is not ...
If you could go back in time, you’d probably find it easy to identify a cultured person. At least society seemed clear what it meant then. In imperial China, a person of culture (always male, of ...
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