It discusses how song lyrics passed from the lyricist to editions now found in libraries, and the role of female singers in the early stages of transmission; the genre's origins and the textual legacy from the Tang and Five Dynasties and how the genre evolved out of Tang poetry; specific songbooks and lyricists, including the Yuezhangji by Liu Yong, the xiaoling songbooks, and the work of Yan Jidao; Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Chao Buzhi, Li Zhiyi, Qin Guan, He Zhu, and Zhou Bangyan; and lyricists' early sketches of the history of the genre and their growing interest in the beginnings of the genre found in Tang and Five Dynasties song lyrics.

Written for solo voice (soloist Meng Meng), chorus and orchestra, the work is based on the texts of 11th-century Chinese poet Su Shi.

In chapter 12, Ronald Egan considers the much later informal (though in this case, published) letters, or chi du [phrase omitted], of Su Shi [phrase omitted].

"Ten thousand scrolls" in the title of Yugen Wang's short monograph suggests that what makes Huang Tingjian's (1045-1105) poetry different from his teachers and associates, the most famous of whom is Su Shi (1036-1101), is that he made use of a far wider set of allusions at a time when there was an explosion of printed books.

There is a well-loved poem in praise of bamboo by the famous Chinese writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman, Su Shi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] also known as Su Dongpo [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1037-1101) of the Song Dynasty [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] which reads as follows:

For instance, "Peruse the '300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and you'll be well read about critiquing poetry." (21) A popular proverb has it that "Read a hundred times, and you will grasp the spirit of the text." Su Shi's poem had it that "Content not with reading the classics repeatedly; deep thinking afterwards will naturally add to your understanding of them." (22) Yang Yi (1986) also thinks that if a reader wants to have a two-way communication with the author on the equal basis, he must first "look through and chew all the previous works before the author who he is reading, so that he can appreciate the good of the book at hand and even admire the author," or else it will be difficult to "conduct responsory, or exchange views, with the writer." (23)

This thousand-year-old hanging scroll known as the Gong Fu Tie Calligraphy is just nine characters long and simply reads: 'Su Shi respectfully bids farewell to Gongfu, Gentleman Court Consultant' (Fig.

The illustrious poet and artist Su Shi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1037-1101) composed this inscription for a painting titled Picture of the Misty and Rainy Indigo Field (Lantian yanyu tu), allegedly painted by the famous Tang poet Wang Wei (699-759), whose style name was Mojie [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].

Li Po, Han Yu, Su Shi, each an immortal of Chinese letters, all got themselves banished from the pleasures of the royal court for one reason or another.