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Poet’s Corner

The hard road
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, ...

Shi Jing
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 ...

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