In 1737, an obscure Chinese scholar named Shi Zhenlin wrote his memoirs -- a collection of rambling jottings describing his friends and travels in China. He could hardly have imagined that, more ...

Wednesday's reading included excerpts from his poetry collections "Another Kind of Tenderness" and "Cat's Eye in a Splintered Mirror," among others. The reading, which lasted less than an hour, ...

When Hinton published his book, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated, in 2019, he also published a companion volume, Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry.

(CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise has ruled rivers and inspired Chinese media for millennia, yet it now faces extinction. In an attempt to document the legacy of this legendary species ...

Yu Xiuhua’s views on sex and relationships have often been slammed as “vulgar.” Critics disparaged her writings centering around love and lust. Many said she would never find love again after a ...

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

Yu Xiuhua, the poet praised for her unabashed views on sex and relationships, gushed about her newfound love and posted photos of her bridal photoshoot two months ago. But their romance was ...

The Chinese poet employs rhyme, and he uses ‘pattern,’ commonly called metre, or regular rhythm. His lines have the same number of words, corresponding, no doubt, to our metrical feet.

During the Cuban-Chinese poetry appreciation event, as both a poet and an editor, Minister Alonso shared his poems titled " Venegas, 1993," " Cisne Salvaje " (Wild Swan), and " Heredad ...

The poems were included in the exhibition “ China’s Hidden Century ” (though October 8), which explores life in 19th-century China, and the effects of the rise of new art forms and technologies.