The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation

the lantern light seems to have written a poem;
they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.
—“lantern” by Fei Ming

The work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei has long been celebrated in both China and internationally, and various English translations and mistranslations of their work played a pivotal yet often unacknowledged role in shaping the emergence and...