Bai Juyi (772-846), a great poet of the Tang Dynasty of China, is a famous and very influential writer in Chinese literary history. Called the King of Poetry, his writing is realistic, on a wide variety of topics, and simple and "down-to-earth". Here are five of what many consider to be his masterpieces, in a fresh English translation, and accompanied by the original Chinese. Their titles are: Song of Eternal Regret, Journey of the Lute, The Charcoal Seller, Farewell at the Grasslands, and On Seeing Wheat Harvesters.
- | Author: Lanjing Zhou
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: October 11, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 56 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 153939560X
- | ISBN-13: 9781539395607