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  • To Yang Kaihui [Mao’s Poems]

    To Yang Kaihui · Tune: “Congratulations to the Groom” – Mao Zedong, late 1923 I wave my hand and depart from here.How can I bear to face each other in sorrow,repeating our pain and grief?Anger and longing seem to fill your eyes and brow;hot tears well up but are held back.I know there was…

  • Mooring by Maple Bridge at Night [Tang Poems]

    — Zhang Ji Moon sets, crows cry, frost fills the sky; Facing dim fishing boats neath maples, sad I lie. Beyond the city wall of Gusu, from Temple of Cold Hill Bells break the ship-borne roamer’s dream in midnight still.

  • [Journey to the West] The Stowaway

    In the novel, the monk and the emperor swore brotherhood in the palace, and the Tang Monk, accompanied by his horse, set off westward.