2016/10/06 by Paul Rouzer, Christopher Nugent, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Chinese history and philosophy #Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond #Landscape and Cultural Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/9781501501913
openalex publication_date 2016/10/06 · openalex created_date 2021/02/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the colloquial qualities of the originals. This new version provides a complete Chinese/English edition of the poems, aimed at combining readability with scholarly accuracy. It will prove useful to students of Chinese poetry and of Chinese religion, as well as anyone interested in a better understanding of works that have proved so influential in the history of East Asian Buddhism and in world literature.