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 ...

University Professor Stephen Owen completed an eight-year-long project to translate Chinese poet Du Fu’s 1,400 poems into English, aiming to make the works more accessible. Du Fu, who Owen described ...

Du Fu Thatched Cottage (杜甫草堂) is an idyllic park and museum situated in the western suburbs of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, adjacent to the picturesque Flower Rinsing Brook. The museum, in honor of the ...

Eighth century Chinese poet Du Fu, one of the most admired lyric poets in the world, left behind some 1,400 poems and a record of a life that translator and editor David Young has now turned into a ...

A statue of poet Du Fu at Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum in Sichuan province. [Photo provided to China Daily] This was the first poem learned by Zhang Yinan, now a teacher of classical Chinese ...

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 ...