Wheel-Rim River: The Mountain Poems and Paintings

Renowned in ancient China's artistic tradition, the Wheel-Rim River poems and paintings come to life in exquisite translations and 40 full-color reproductions.

The famed T'ang-Dynasty poet Wang Wei once said that his poems were paintings and his paintings poems. This book presents a legendary instance of that conjunction. One autumn in eighth century China, Wang's friend P'ei Ti came to visit, and the two of them wandered the mountain landscape around Wang's house. They wrote poems at twenty...