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Poet’s Corner

Li Bai
Dec 7, 2012 (WiC 175)

Anyone who thought Xi Jinping might celebrate promotion to the top rung of the Chinese leadership with a celebration or two was sadly mistaken. After just three weeks in the job, Xi’s message is a clear one: less frivolity and banqueting, ...

Qu Yuan
Nov 30, 2012 (WiC 174)

For William Wordsworth, a leading English Romantic poet, poetry was “emotion recollected in tranquility”. But about 2,000 years before Wordsworth put pen to paper in the 1790s, a Han dynasty scholar took a different view. He wrote in the ...

Poet’s Corner

Li Bai Dec 7, 2012 (WiC 175) Anyone who thought Xi Jinping might celebrate promotion to the top rung of the Chinese leadership with a celebration or two was sadly mistaken. After just three weeks in the job, Xi’s message is a clear one: less frivolity and banqueting, ...

Qu Yuan Nov 30, 2012 (WiC 174) For William Wordsworth, a leading English Romantic poet, poetry was “emotion recollected in tranquility”. But about 2,000 years before Wordsworth put pen to paper in the 1790s, a Han dynasty scholar took a different view. He wrote in the ...

Li Bai
Dec 7, 2012 (WiC 175)

Anyone who thought Xi Jinping might celebrate promotion to the top rung of the Chinese leadership with a celebration or two was sadly mistaken. After just three weeks in the job, Xi’s message is a clear one: less frivolity and banqueting, ...

Qu Yuan
Nov 30, 2012 (WiC 174)

For William Wordsworth, a leading English Romantic poet, poetry was “emotion recollected in tranquility”. But about 2,000 years before Wordsworth put pen to paper in the 1790s, a Han dynasty scholar took a different view. He wrote in the ...