Although he had little interest in the grandeur of high office and political power, Wang rose to no less a position than Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, he instituted a controversial system of radically egalitarian social reforms in an effort to improve the lives of China s dispossessed peasants. Wang then left politics and followed his true interest retiring to a reclusive life of artistic and spiritual self-cultivation. It was after his retirement that Wang An-shih wrote the poems on which his reputation is based. Wang spent those later years practicing Ch an (Zen) Buddhism and wandering the mountains around his home, and that Taoist/Ch an cultivation of the rivers-and-mountains realm shapes his poems. These late poems are short and plain-spoken, but always with profound resonances. They won him wide acclaim across the centuries in China and beyond; and here he enters English for the first time, feeling like a major contemporary poet who is especially interesting for the deeply ecological approach of his poetic thinking."

    Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun. "For over two decades, March 26th has marked the day when college students across China hold vigils for the poet Hai Zi, reciting his poetry and sharing their own poems dedicated to him. Newspapers and magazines publish memorial articles and the latest critical essays on his work. People travel from far and near to visit his tomb in the otherwise forgotten village of Chawan. It was on this day in 1989 that Hai Zi laid his body down on a rail track near Beijing Shanhaiguan and ended his life at the age of twenty five. "In modern Chinese history, few poets have been revered to the extent that Hai Zi has. Not only is he one of the most read contemporary poets, but also one of the most imitated his folkloric simplicity, imagistic clarity, his motifs of wheat, wheat field, village, and grassland have found their way into many Chinese poems written today. Mostly unknown during his lifetime, he has been posthumously crowned with such titles as 'the genius poet', 'the purest poet, ' 'the poet martyr, ' and 'the poet who has changed a whole generation's writing of poetry.'"Ye Chun, from her introduction"

    Even though he hated sweets most, he put effort in to finish it;The second time, because she was scared she reached out and hugged him. His complexion slightly red: “Young lady, please first let go.”The third time, she accidentally kissed him. He looked like he had just seen a ghost, she just said: “Only an accident, please don’t mind or think about it too much.”Being a well-raised and educated person, an outstanding officer who was both mentally and physically healthy, Ying Han Shi was unable to not think about his first kiss.After careful consideration, he decided……to take responsibility for her.

    Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word 'love' regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical, and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love's profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favor of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love.

    1.Abridged versions of mini-stories and novellas written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people;2.The vocabulary in this book is limited to about 2500 common Chinese words, which are mainly based on the 2500 Chinese words listed in the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level 5;3.Commonly used words appear in high frequency to form concise and short sentences with complete structure;4.Pinyin is added to the complete text, English notes or sample sentences for difficult words and sentences are provided; 5.Guide to Reading and About the Author in English, and Questions in Chinese are provided for each story; 6.Accompanied by original illustrations and a CD in MP3 format.