Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Long ranking among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were written at least twelve centuries ago on trees, rocks, and walls by a semi-mythical Buddhist monk living in the mountains of south-eastern China>

About the author

Peter Harris is a specialist in the political and cultural history of China. He is the founding Director of the Asian Studies Institute at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and a Visiting Professor at Nanjing University, China. He has written, edited and translated numerous books on China and Asia. Other volumes he has edited for Everyman's Library include The Travels of Marco Polo, Zen Poems and Three Hundred Tang Poems.

Product details

• Authors: Hanshan
• Assisted by: Peter Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9781841598338
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-833-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 165 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; China, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY / Asian / Chinese, Buddhism, Classical texts, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, 9th century, c 800 to c 899