The Banished Immortal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Banished Immortal write by Ha Jin. This book was released on 2019-01-15. The Banished Immortal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname, the Banished Immortal. Today, Bai's verses are still taught to China's schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet's life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet's later years—in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China's history—and the mysterious circumstances of his death, which are surrounded by legend. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.
Tracking the Banished Immortal
Tracking the Banished Immortal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracking the Banished Immortal write by Paula M. Varsano. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Tracking the Banished Immortal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this lucidly and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception."
The Selected Poems of Li Po
The Selected Poems of Li Po - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selected Poems of Li Po write by Bai Li. This book was released on 1996. The Selected Poems of Li Po available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.
Banished Immortal
Banished Immortal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Banished Immortal write by Paul S. Ropp. This book was released on 2001. Banished Immortal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lyrical account of a decade-long search for the truth about Shuangqing, China's peasant woman poet
A Song Everlasting
A Song Everlasting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Song Everlasting write by Ha Jin. This book was released on 2021-07-27. A Song Everlasting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting—a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan’s secession, and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, Tian impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government’s threat to his artistic integrity. With the help of his old friend Yabin, Tian’s career begins to flourish in the United States. But he is soon placed on a Chinese government blacklist and thwarted by the state at every turn, and it becomes increasingly clear that he may never return to China unless he denounces the freedoms that have made his new life possible. Tian nevertheless insists on his identity as a performer, refusing to give up his art. Moving, important, and strikingly relevant to our times, A Song Everlasting is a story of hope in the face of hardship from one of our most celebrated authors.
