“The Poet Thinks of His Old Home,” “The Cataract of Luh Shan,” and “Chuang Chou and the Butterfly,” from The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet. Translated by Shigeyoshi Obata. Published by Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1965.
“Cold Mountain” and “Autumn Begins” by Meng Hao-Jan; “Leaving the City” by Tu Fu, from Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China. Translated by David Hinton. Translated copyright © 2002, 2005 David Hinton. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
“Poem” and “Written at My Country Retreat by the River Wang, After Heavy Rain” by Wang Wei; “Looking for Chang, the Taoist Recluse of South Stream” by Liu Changqing; “On Looking for a Hermit and Not Finding Him” by Jia Dao, from The Three Hundred Tang Poems. Translated by Innes Herdan. Published by The Far East Book Co., Ltd., 2000.
Excerpt from Return to Painting by Gao Xingjian. Copyright © 2001 Gao Xingjian. Translation copyright © 2002 Rizzoli Corriere della Sera. Published by Harper Collins Publishers.
Excerpt from Chinese Painting Techniques by Alison Stilwell Cameron. Copyright © 1968 Alison Stilwell Cameron, 1999 Dover Publications. Reprinted by permission of Dover Publications.
“Lu-Shan gatha” by Su T’ung-Po, from Zen Painting by Yasuichi Awakawa. Translated by John Bester. Published by Translation Kodansha International Ltd., 1970. English translation copyright of poem by Kodansha International. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu, translated by John C. H. Wu © 2005. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, www.shambhala.com.
Sze, Mai-Mai, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting © 1956, 1963 Bollingen. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
Excerpt from “Walking with a Staff” by Shen Chou. Translated by Dr. Richard Edwards and Tseng Hsien-chi, from Treasures of Asia: Chinese Painting by James Cahill. Reprinted by permission of Skira Editore, Milan, Italy.
Excerpt from Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en. Translated by W. J. F. Jenner. Copyright © 1993 Foreign Languages Press. Reprinted by permission of Foreign Languages Press, 24 Baiwanzhuang St., Beijing 100037, China.
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