Sichuan province is making great efforts to preserve and extend its historical legacies and cultural inheritance by launching innovative projects internationally. On Aug 31, Chengdu's Du Fu Thatched ...

A superb evocation of the Chinese master and his travels To our shame, few of us outside China know much about the country’s classical poetry. It doesn’t help that the way the names of leading poets ...

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together, they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of Du Fu, China’s greatest poet. Show more Sir Ian ...

A statue of Du Fu sits in the Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Photo: IC After the redesign of his image in Chinese textbooks went trending on social media, famous Tang Dynasty ...

A Harvard sinologist has completed the first English translation of the complete works of Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu. Stephen Owen spent eight years on The Poetry of Du Fu, a 3,000-page and six-volume ...

LONDON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- British historian and TV presenter Michael Wood has said he is delighted to see that his newly released documentary about Du Fu, a prolific Chinese poet in Tang dynasty, has ...

Michael Wood’s passion for all things Chinese was first sparked by his discovery of ancient poetry when he was a teenager (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Since the late 1970s, British historian, author and ...

Du Fu Thatched Cottage (杜甫草堂) is an idyllic park and museum situated in the western suburbs of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, adjacent to the picturesque Flower Rinsing Brook. The museum, in honor of the ...

THE SELECTED POEMS OF DU FU, translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 174 pp., $17.50 (paper). Du Fu (712-770 A.D.) is one of the most honored of Chinese poets. He has ...

"Born in 712, died in 770 and busy in 2012." This tongue-in-cheek sentence describes Du Fu, the prominent Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet who is still a household name today. Parodies featuring Du Fu have ...