Contents: The Tang and Song dynasties ... including the major poets Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi and Lu You as well as the great prose stylists Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Quyang ...

A Tang poet of the time, Zhang Yue, commented: "All who come and go follow this road, But living and dead do not return together." Like so much else in eighth-century China, the production of ...

another famous poet in the Tang dynasty. As a member of the elite in society he lived in the capital at Chang’an, now known as Xi’an. Later he was dubbed the 'Poet Historian', for writing down ...