Yuan Mei, a poet of the Ch'ing Dynasty (18th century), was the most popular poet in the 2,500-year-history of classical Chinese poetry. An iconoclast who dared
The Way of Eating: Yuan Mei`s Manual of Gastronomy (Suiyuan Shidan) is, remarkably, the first English edition of one of the world’s most famous books about fo
Although the preface says that the tales in this collection of supernatural stories should not be taken seriously and just aim to dispel boredom, Zibuyu is a wo
This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of