Copyright © 1987, 2016 by Eliot Weinberger
Copyright © 1987 by Octavio Paz
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei was first published by Moyer Bell Limited in 1987. An earlier version first appeared in Zero: Contemporary Buddhist Thought, edited by Eric Lerner. Paz’s essay first appeared in Vuelta (Mexico City).
Reissued, with additional material, as New Directions Paperbook 1349 in 2016.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weinberger, Eliot, author. | Paz, Octavio, 1914–1998, writer of afterword.
Title: 19 ways of looking at Wang Wei : with more ways / Eliot Weinberger ; afterword by Octavio Paz.
Other titles: Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei.
Description: New York, NY : New Directions Books, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016021270 | ISBN 9780811226202 (acid-free paper) | eISBN: 9780811226219
Subjects: LCSH: Wang, Wei, 701–761. Lu chai. | Wang, Wei, 701–761—Translations—History and criticism. | Chinese language—Translating. | Poetry—Translating.
Classification: LCC PL2676.A683 W43 2016 | DDC 895.11/3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021270
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