Five Seasons of a Golden Year: A Chinese Pastoral

Translated by Gerald Bullett
1980
156 pages
ISBN 962-201-246-9

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A collection of sixty lyrical poems written by a leading Song-dynasty poet Fan Ch'eng-ta (1126–1193) and translated by the English poet and novelist Gerald Bullett. The verse translations are complemented by an introduction to the translation approach. This is a bilingual edition, with the original Chinese texts written in elegant calligraphy, and amply illustrated with Chinese landscape paintings. This book won the AAUP Design Award in 1982.