Classical Chinese Poems in English

Here is my most recent rendition of quatrains.  This is a quatrain by Liu Fangping 劉方平 of the High Tang 盛唐 period (713-766).  After failing ...

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Today, I am posting my rendition of the last of the thirty-seven 5-character quatrains 五言絕句 in the most popular anthology "300 Tang Dyn...

Here is another beautiful little poem (a 5-character quatrain) by Liu Changqing.  I hope you will enjoy both the original poem and my rendit...

What follows is my latest rendition of a five-character quatrain by the Tang poet Liu Changqing.  I take the poem to be more than just a sta...

Recently, I had been asked by a friend of mine to translate a 2-line Chinese saying which reads: 小隱隱於野 大隱隱於市.  To this, there is a 3-line co...

Below is my latest rendition.  Lately, I have been busy compiling for publication 60 of my quatrain renditions and can spare no time transla...

  Zu Yong (699-746):  Viewing the Snow Tops of Mount Zhongnan   This is the last of the quatrains I translated some 10 years ago which w...

POSTSCRIPT (25.2.21):  On further consideration, I would like to have "like Tao Qian's" in the middle of line 1 reverted to ...