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Bill Porter (who uses the pen name Red Pine) wrote a wonderful account of his travels in search of places associated with ancient Chinese po...

  The Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom by Sung Po-jen is the world’s earliest-known printed art book, published in 1238.  Only one cop...

In an earlier post , 'Clouds over the Xiao and Xiang Rivers', I discussed landscape imagery in Song dynasty music for the qin (Wade...

In the clip I've embedded above, David Hinton introduces his book Hunger Mountain (2012) .  The eponymous peak is in Vermont, where ...

'Sonata for Piano and Vacuum Cleaner' can be found towards the end of The Hall of Uselessness , the new volume of collected essays...

There is a wonderful description of landscape design in Cao Xueqin's Hong Lou Meng ('Dream of the Red Chamber', c. 1760 - transl...

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

Ni Zan, Landscape , 1372 National Museum of Taipei (Source: Wikimedia Commons )   'Trees on the riverbank, an expanse of water...

Having described the poetry of Hsieh Ling-yün last time, I now feel the need to refer to his contemporary T'ao Yüan-ming (also known as ...