Many of the poems were very likely composed by several authors working in succession. There contain many references to famous literary or folk heroes, Confucius, and other figures in Chinese folklore ...

You wouldn’t usually expect biologists to turn to ancient literature, much less poetry, for their answers. However, in order ...

an especially prosperous era of Chinese history from 618 to 907, and depicts some of the era’s most famous poets including Li Bai, Du Fu, and Gao Shi — all household names in contemporary China, with ...

confusion I can’t even keep this hairpin in. The first line is one of the most famous in all Chinese poetry. Du Fu is stuck in the capital, separated from his wife and children, the country is ...

He further claims that the famous Chinese paintings of mountain peaks emerging from obscuring clouds and the Chinese poems about blossoms emerging from buds or boats from mists are artistic ...

In an attempt to document the legacy of this legendary species and determine why its population levels have so drastically decreased, a new scientific analysis focuses entirely on the porpoise’s ...

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Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...