some LANDSCAPES

A 19th century painting showing John Scott looking through a telescope at the Ware valley In 2007 I wrote here about a prospect poem by Joh...

Back in October I was fortunate to be able to attend a book launch for Michael Wood's new book In the Footsteps of Du Fu . He gave an ex...

  Hsieh T'iao 'Viewing the Three Lakes' I have previously devoted a post to Hsieh Ling-yün ...

Anon (once attributed to Guo Xi), Mount Emei under Heavy Snow , 17th century Mount Omei, or Emei, in Sichuan province, is one of the Fo...

A short way downriver from Jiujiang, where the the Yangtze meets Boyang Lake, there is a famous sonorous landscape called Stone Bell Mountai...

Landscape can be a solace to the exile, but it can be hard to contemplate the beauty of lakes and mountains without thinking of home, or the...

Mount Lu Source: Wikimedia Commons Lu Mountain (Lu-shan or Hermitage Mountain), at the juncture of the Long River and Lake P'o-ya...

China: Empire of Living Symbols is a book I've been recommending to anyone with even a passing interest in China. A collection of rath...

In his poem ‘The Waterfall on Lu Mountain’, Li Po (Li Bai) likened the sight of the ceaseless flow of water to stars falling from the sky....