Yu Jian: Selected Poems began as a form of

began as a form of minor divertissement in the urban pleasure quarters of 8th century China

Idema’s tour-de-force translation of Pu Songling’s 蒲松齡 ‘A Pleasant Song’ 快曲

ISBN 978-988-237-177-4

A Special Section on Lao Shê

Other features comprise one more chapter of Erik Honobe’s fine rendering of Feng Menglong’s 馮夢龍 seventeenth-century historical novel

Yu Jian: Selected Poems began as a form ofBy Yu JianTranslated by Simon Patton and Naikan Tao2018136 pagesISBN 978 962 7255 46 8 Born in Yunnan province in 1954, Yu Jian has developed a unique poetic voice that has little to do with the cultural centres of Beijing and Shanghai. In 1971, during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (19661976), he came across a booklet of classical Chinese poetry hidden away in a remote village temple. This chance discovery ripped the blindfold from his