Tu Fu: Selected Poems - Hardcover

Du, Fu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 7119010743 ISBN 13: 9787119010748

Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, 1990

Synopsis

This volume was published to commemorate the 1,250th birthday of Tu Fu, one of China's greatest poets who lived in the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD). It was a time of great turmoil when wars of agression swept the country. Tu Fu, born of an intelligentsia family, sank to the lowest rung of the social ladder. He shared the lot of common folk and developed a deep insight into the calamities and sufferings in which they were involved. He hated wars and longed for peace. He made his poetry a vehicle for the people, as well as a faithful account of his own tragedy. His poems have long been widely cherished in China.

Edition details

• Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 7119010743
• ISBN 13: 9787119010748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 178