Wang Wei, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Wei, also called Wang Youcheng, courtesy name ( zi) Mojie, (born 701, Qi county, Shanxi province, China-died 761, Chang’an, Shaanxi province), one of the most famous men of arts and letters during the Tang dynasty, one of the golden ages of Chinese cultural history. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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This translation will enable students with limited or no knowledge of Chinese to get a full sense of Wang Wei's compositional range. In spite of the importance of Wang Wei's poetry in the history of Chinese literature, no one has attempted a complete translation of all of his surviving poems moreover, even though he was known for his skill in composing prose pieces in the recognized genres of his day (especially as a writer of commissioned compositions), very little of his prose has been translated. For the first time, readers encountering his work in English translation will get a comprehensive understanding of Wang Wei‘s range as a poet and prose writer. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu.
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