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 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 ...

While Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Du Fu holds an irreplaceable position in China's literary history, globally he is not quite as well known as his contemporary Li Bai. However, that just may change as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not a biography, but instead a very coherent book of free translations, this new volume translated by Young (Black Lab) gives the sense of a life as lived, a life that belongs at once to Du Fu ...

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 ...

An exhibition of a figure-painting master's work offers an insight into his spiritual world, Lin Qi reports.