Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great ar...

A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets.Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the common folk of his nation, ensured that he soon became revered. Like Shakespeare or Dante, his poetry resonates in a timeless manner that ensures it is always relevant and offer...

A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets.Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the common folk of his nation, ensured that he soon became revered. Like Shakespeare or Dante, his poetry resonates in a timeless manner that ensures it is always relevant and offer...

Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical information—which earned him the epithet "poet-historian." Some 1,400 of Du Fu's poems...

This is a book with the best poems selected from the Tang Dynasty in Chinese. As we know it well, Du Fu is one of the best poets in the Tang Dynasty. This book has selected some of the best poetic works of Du Fu. After prudentially reviewing the available English translation on Internet, I am confident my English translation is one the best. Hopefully, you can enjoy my translation and understand much more about Chinese ancient poems, the best part of divergent Chinese cultures.

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu is a bilingual collection of English and Chinese versions of poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, the most renowned poets in all of Chinese literature. Translated by Keith Holyoak, this volume includes an introduction to the poets and their work, plus a bibliography. Holyoak's translations capture the essential beauty of the poets’ language, while retaining key elements of the structure of the original poems, including their metric form and rhyme scheme. The poems transpor...

Die Kraft, dein Leben zu ändern, liegt in dir: Erkenne sie und lerne sie zu nutzenDer Weg zur Veränderung beginnt in dir selbstDu hast immer zwei Wege vor dir: den einfachen, schnellen – oder den, der dich wachsen lässt. Nur wer seine Grenzen erkennt, kann sie überwinden. Nur wer sich seinen Herausforderungen stellt, entfaltet sein wahres Potenzial.Wie alte Shaolin-Weisheiten dein modernes Leben verändern können...

Popularisé par Bruce Lee, le wing chun est un style martial « doux-dur » qui vise à former rapidement un combattant efficace. Ce livre traite des principes fondamentaux ainsi que certains aspects physiques, spirituels et mentaux de cet art. Son objectif est de construire des bases solides, élaborer des séances d’entraînement avec ou sans partenaire, assimiler la théorie et la terminologie rudimentaires : Histoire du Wing chun • Les règles à connaître avant la pratique • Programme technique...

Le futur proche qui constitue le décor de ces fictions troublantes a des airs d’apocalypse : une atmosphère saturée de particules chimiques condamne la population à s’emmurer ; dans les eaux polluées du Pacifique se forme un monstre cannibale mi-baleine, mi-déchet ; une nouvelle technologie permet le meurtre récréatif. Kim Fu décrit ce monde de plus en plus inhospitalier sans ciller, mais ne vous y trompez pas : la beauté se cache toujours dans l’horrible, et la mutation que subit chacun d...

Le lien profond unissant le Zen et le kung fu ainsi que d'autres arts martiaux chinois existe depuis plus d'un millénaire.En quoi la méditation peut-elle jouer un rôle essentiel dans l'apprentissage et la maîtrise du kung fu? Comment se fait-il que méditer puisse améliorer la qualité du kung fu pratiqué, et ainsi le faire passer à un niveau tout simplement supérieur? Comment est-il possible qu'il y ait une alliance si intime entre la pratique de la méditation et le fait de cultiver ...

The theory of Schur–Weyl duality has had a profound influence over many areas of algebra and combinatorics. This text is original in two respects: it discusses affine q-Schur algebras and presents an algebraic, as opposed to geometric, approach to affine quantum Schur–Weyl theory. To begin, various algebraic structures are discussed, including double Ringel–Hall algebras of cyclic quivers and their quantum loop algebra interpretation. The rest of the book investigates the affine quantum Sc...