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	Chinese Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wang Wei, a meditative philosopher and painter with Buddhist inclinations, depicted the serenity of nature's beauty; it has been said that poetry is in his pictures and pictures are in his poems.
		In the 11th century, although few examples of the ancient tradition of storytelling had been preserved, a revival of interest in the art took place, and it was practiced with much skill during the Song dynasty (960-1279), a period of spectacular literary achievement.
		During the first half of the 20th century Chinese writers used literature as a mirror to reflect the seamy side of life, as a weapon to combat the evils of society, and as a form of propaganda to spread the message of class struggle.
	www.connect.net /ron/chineseliterature.html (2627 words)

	Wang Wei
		This article is about the 8th century Chinese poet; other Wang Weis are Wang Wei (17th century poet) and Wang Wei (pilot).
		Wang Wei (王維 698 - 759, sometimes titled the Poet Buddha), was a Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman.
		From a high family, he passed the civil service entrance exam in 721 and had a successful civil service career, rising to become Right Assistant Director of State Affairs in 759.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/w/wa/wang_wei.html (258 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Wang Wei Wang Weiwäng wā, 699-759, Chinese poet.
		A supporter of Sun Yat-sen, Wang was sentenced (1910) to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate the regent of China.
		poet laureate poet laureatelô´rēĬt, title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Wang+Wei+(17th+century+poet) (571 words)

	World Lit II Notes A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wang Wei was a woman who lived in China in the 17th Century.
		The poet is tired of both the love (or desire or rapture) and the pain of life, and he seeks an end to his troubles, whether you interpret that as a place to stop for the night or as a desire for an end to life itself.
		The poet meets his love in a romantic place at night, he declares his love for her, but his love is dead.
	jewel.morgan.edu /~lmekler/wangweinotes.htm (12623 words)

	Cloudband Magazine : An Exhibition at the China Institute Gallery called 'The Chinese Painter as Poet' Which Examines ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Since that time, Chinese poets and painters often alluded to literary, historic, poetic, or painting references in their own work, underpinning the idea of a continuous artistic canon.
		Wang Wei (701-761) of the Tang dynasty is considered the first to have mastered the two arts of poetry and painting in China.
		Pessanha was a Western poet who not only appreciated Chinese poetry and painting, but also owned a set of poem-paintings by the 17th century artist Shao Mi (ca.
	www.cloudband.com /magazine/articles4q00/exh_pegg_poet_1000_1.html (1087 words)

	The Long Conversation between Painting and Poetry
		For Plato, poets and painters are both imitators and their work a third-generation removed from the truth.
		Though the poet is as free as the painter in the invention of his fictions they are not so satisfactory to men as paintings; for, though poetry is able to describe forms, actions and places in words, the painter deals with the actual similitude of the forms, in order to represent them….
		I suppose, therefore, that it would be possible to study poetry by studying painting, or that one could become a painter after one had become a poet, not to speak of carrying on in both métiers at once, with the economy of genius, as Blake did.
	home.mindspring.com /~chadwick15/_wsn/Conversation.html (1202 words)

	Court beauty wins place in theater
		Wang Yansong had also directed another play called Escort (Yajie) for the ensemble and the play won the National Drama Festival in 2001.
		Guangzhou-based theater producer and critic Wang Wei said: "It is seldom for a local to produce such a splendid play.
		Director Wang settled on her to play Liu because Han is good at singing and dancing much like Liu.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_newupdate/2004-06/14/content_47406_2.htm (571 words)

	More info about the poet: Wang Wei - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wang Wei was a painter, calligrapher and musician as well as being one of the greatest High Tang poets.
		Wei Wang, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of...
		Wang Wei (??) (698 - 759), sometimes titled the Poet Buddha, was a Tang Dynasty...
	www.poemhunter.com /wang-wei/resources/poet-20172/page-1 (272 words)

	CHAPTER VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The revolutionary new idea of art was established between the fin-de-siecle of the 19th century and the expressionism at the beginning of the 20th century.
		Wang Wei, poet, painter and aesthetician said, "It is not necessary that the painted mountain be identified as a real mountain, but it is absolutely necessary to show the spirit of the mountain," apparently refusing mimetic representation.
		In the 17th century Wang Yangming and Li Shi came close to the individual center, but not so deeply as the notion of person.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series01/I-19/chapter_viii.htm (2470 words)

	TIMELINE 7th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		Islamic History of the 7th Century 634 Psephos issued by Herakleios, proclaims doctrine of Monotheletism, theory of one-will of Christ The Byzantine Empire in the 7th Century 634 Arabs capture Damascus The Byzantine Empire in the 7th Century 634: Battles of Basra, Damascus and Ajnadin.
		Islamic History of the 7th Century 635 An unknown Chinese scholar writes correctly and clearly that the tail of a comet always points way from the sun, although he could not possibly have known that this was caused by the pressure of sunlight on gasses and particles of dust.
		Islamic History of the 7th Century 691-2 Caliph Abd al Malik constructs the Dome of the Rock (mosque) at Jerusalem The Byzantine Empire in the 7th Century 692 Council in Trullo held in Constantinople, issues 102 canons The Byzantine Empire in the 7th Century 692: The fall of Makkah.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline7.html (7930 words)

	An introduction to Chinese literature
		The greatest poet of these troubled centuries was Tao Qian (T'ao Ch'ien, also known as Tao Yuanming, or T'ao Yan-ming), who excelled in writing of the joys of nature and the solitary life.
		In the late 11th to the 13th century, however, the tradition of writing musical ci was revived.
		Stimulated by the literature of the West, Chinese writers, led by Hu Shi, started a literary revolution known as the Chinese Renaissance in an attempt to urge the written use of colloquial language and to heighten its status as a means of scholarly expression.
	www.china-on-site.com /literatu/intro.htm (2750 words)

	Lowe Art Museum \| Art of Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the Tang dynasty, numerous pottery horses of exceptional sculptural quality were consigned to tombs of the wealthy, attesting to the continuing importance attached to the fine breeds imported from Central Asia specifically, the kingdom of Ferghana.
		There was a new wave of enthusiasm for horses, at least in the region of the capital, Ch'ang-an, at the end of the 7th century.
		Perhaps in keeping with the Northern Wei tradition, Tang ceramic sculptors tended to adopt some distortions of the natural form: the length of the neck was exaggerated and the proportion of the head reduced; the legs were lengthened; and the scale from mane to crupper increased.
	www.miami.edu /lowe/art_asia.htm (769 words)

	Wang Wei
		From a high family, he passed the civil service entrance examination in 721 and had a successful civil service career, rising to become Right Assistant Director of State Affairs in 759.
		This page was last modified 00:51, 5 Apr 2005.
		The article about Wang Wei contains information related to Wang Wei, References and External links.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wang_Wei (280 words)

	Shih Wang -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the 17th century, the writer on art Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (q.v.) established him as the founder of the revered Southern school of painter-poets, considering the...
		In the early part of the 20th century, he came to be revered as a hero of the Chinese nationalist rebellion against foreign domination.
		The writing of Chinese was revolutionized in the 20th century by the diplomat and scholar Hu Shih.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9067365 (724 words)

	wiki/Wang Wei Definition / wiki/Wang Wei Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wang Wei (王維) (698 Events Tiberius III deposes Leontius II and becomes Byzantine Emperor.
		Musicians can be classified by how they make music: A singer (also called a vocalist) uses his or her voice.
		From a high family, he passed the civil service entrance examinationThe imperial examinations (科舉, kējǔ) in dynastic China determined positions in the civil service, which had promoted upward mobility among the people for centuries.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Wang_Wei (880 words)

	Court Beauty Wins Place in Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although Wang's Baimen Liu is set against a historical backdrop some 400 years ago, he hopes theater-goers will be stirred to think about their own lives rather than become emotionally involved with the protagonists.
		Wang's Baimen Liu is expected to achieve the latter effect.
		However, Wang does not display the foul wind and the bloodshed of the turbulent scene.
	www.china.com.cn /english/culture/97992.htm (1250 words)

	Wisdom - Our Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Scholars, poets, civil servants, Buddhist abbots, and even monks of no reputation were driven from region to region, into exile through windblown mountain passes, or when the regime shifted, recalled up a thundering river gorge to serve in some official capacity.
		In the 1960s, California poet Lew Welch, much taken with Chinese scholar poems and the habits of Ch’an hermits, is said to have left the sole copy of one of his poems tacked to a barroom wall in Sausalito.
		Wang Wei (701–761), a Buddhist practitioner and a careful student of landscapes, established a further quality of much Ch’an poetry: the exclusion of anything grand, sensational, strenuous, or heroic.
	www.wisdompubs.org /html/catalog/search/index.cfm?productID=0861711432&txtFile=0861711432%2Dexcerpt%2DTable%5Fof%5FContents%5Fand%5FExcerpts%2Ehtml (3551 words)

	Shota Rustaveli
		Rustaveli himself considered poetry one of the oldest branches of wisdom, and saw it as the poet's duty to evoke strong emotions and 'inflame the heart'.
		Georgia was annexed by Russia in the early 19th century, and in the poetry of Chavchavadze and Orbeliani there are melancholy reflections on past greatness.
		The early twentieth century saw many poetry movements inspired by western influences: Symbolists (Tabidze, Iashvili, Mitsishvili), Modernists (Gamsakhurdia, Grishashvili, Leonidze, Makashvili), Futurists (Shengelaia, Chikovani, Gogoberidze) and poets belonging to no particular school.
	www.poetry-portal.com /poets.html (759 words)

	TONY KLINE COLLECTION: Poetry In Translation
		He is pre-eminently the poet of the City, and an illusory immorality clings to his poetry that reveals, in reality, the sensitivity of a deeply moral spirit.
		The brilliant, and tragic, T’ang Dynasty of China, which reached its zenith in the eighth century AD, is explored, through its history, ways of thought, and the lives and works of China’s three greatest Classical poets, Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu.
		Cyrano, the portrait of the 17th Century musketeer hero with the long nose, is a famous love story, and Rostand's most enduring and best-loved work.
	www.worldebooklibrary.com /TonyKline_Collection.htm (2357 words)

	List of Chinese language poets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the Chinese language.
		Li Po (or Li Bai) the "Poet Immortal"
		Xu Zhi Mo 1895-1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Chinese_language_poets (124 words)

	Wang Shih-fu -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Of 14 plays attributed to Wang, only three survive, of which Hsi hsiang chi (Romance of the Western Chamber, 1935) is widely regarded as the best northern play of the period and is still popular.
		Chinese poet and prose writer, best known as a governmental reformer who implemented his unconventional idealism through the “New Laws,” or “New Policies,” of 1069–76.
		Wang Wei is popularly known as a model of humanistic education as expressed in poetry, music, and painting.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9076057 (699 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		:''This article is about the 8th century Chinese poet; other Wang Weis are Wang Wei (17th century poet) and Wang Wei (pilot).'' '''Wang Wei''' (王維) (698 - 759), sometimes titled the ''Poet Buddha'', was a Tang Dynasty List of Chinese language poets Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman.
		He influenced what became known as the Chinese_painting Southern school of Chinese landscape art, which was characterised by strong brushstrokes contrasted with light ink washes.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Wang Wei.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Wang_Wei.html (413 words)

	Y-File
		When asked about the origin of the unusual title of her latest work, Borson referred to Basho, a 17th-century Japanese poet.
		There the villagers consulted the poet for advice on their own poetry.
		Concerned with the role of poetry in our time and culture, Borson explained to students who were initially put off by misconceptions of elitism in poetry that it is not about hidden meanings, but about resonance.
	www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=3431 (801 words)

	TIMELINE 8th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		The Eighth Century was a golden age of literature, a bloody age of armed world conquest, an inky near-renaissance age of scholarship, and a diamond-bright age of otherwordly religious fervor.
		Islamic History of the 8th Century 751 Lombards capture Ravenna, previously capital of Byzantine exarchate, end of imperial administration in northern Italy The Byzantine Empire in the 8th Century 751: Pippin the Short declared king of the Franks, ending the Merovingian and beginning the Carolingian Dynasty.
		By the latter part of the eleventh century, when the form of the "Song of Roland" which we possess was probably composed, the historical germ of the story had almost disappeared under the mass of legendary accretion.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline8.html (7575 words)

	The Angry Corrie 28: Aug-Sep96
		In the late 20th century, thinking about civilisation means thinking about the relation between nature and people.
		This is echoed in Hunter's book: the Gaelic poet Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair described nature "with so much absorption that his own personality is dropped entirely out of view".
		Well, if the citizens of this planet, hillwalkers included, are going to make it through the next couple of centuries, something more self-effacing will have to replace the culture which puts the individual first.
	bubl.ac.uk /org/tacit/TAC/tac28/dowalker.htm (2022 words)

	Stefan Arteni / Retrospective Checklist
		The prayer, which was known as early as the fifth or sixth century, reads, "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me," though slight variations in wording are common.
		By the thirteenth century, the Hesychasts were using it in conjunction with meditative techniques of breathing and concentration upon the region of the heart.
		Tu Fu (712-770) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty who lived during the An Luchan Rebellion (755-757), a period preceded and followed by many years of political turbulence and social unrest.
	www.stefanarteni.net /retrospective/retro_checklist/retro_checklist.html (3355 words)

	Mao Xiang - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The text of the calligraphy is a well-known vignette from a travelogue by the late Ming poet and essayist, Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610).
		Yuan Hongdao was a central figure in the Gongan school, a group of late Ming writers and poets who believed that good writing originated from genuine feeling and authentic experience, rather than strict imitation of traditional literary models.
		So impressed was Dong with the young Mao that he compared him to the great Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei (699-751 A.D.), and instead of a formal teacher-pupil relationship, Dong claimed Mao as "a friend in spite of age difference" (wangnianjia).
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/mao_xiang.html (1476 words)

	1597 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		15th century - 16th century - 17th century
		February 24 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (died 1648)
		December 23 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (died 1639)
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1597 (336 words)

	Wang Wei - Chinese Literature - Chinese Art
		Wang Wei - Chinese Literature - Chinese Art
		Wang Wei (王維) (698 - 759), sometimes titled the Poet Buddha, was a Tang Dynasty List of Chinese language poetsChinese poet, musician, painter and statesman.
		From a high family, he passed the Imperial examinationcivil service entrance examination in 721 and had a successful civil service career, rising to become Right Assistant Director of State Affairs in 759.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Wang_Wei (332 words)

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