{"title":"Red Pine","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Pine’s works offer a profound exploration of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, weaving together spiritual insight and rich cultural traditions. Through titles like \u003cem\u003eDancing with the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFinding Them Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, readers are invited into a contemplative journey that bridges the ancient and the contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis writing captures the subtle nuances of cultural rituals and the inner landscapes they reflect, making each book a thoughtful meditation on human experience and heritage. Ideal for those drawn to deep, reflective narratives that celebrate the interconnectedness of art, history, and spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-dead-by-red-pine-9781556596452","title":"Dancing with the Dead","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humour, and musicality that continues to resonate across thousands of years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed Pine is one of the world's finest translators of Chinese poetic and religious texts. His new anthology, \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine\u003c\/i\u003e, gathers over thirty voices from the ancient Chinese past, including Buddhist poets Cold Mountain (Hanshan) and Stonehouse (Shiwu), as well as Tang-dynasty luminaries Wei Yingwu and Liu Zongyuan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e also includes translations from such religious texts as Puming's \u003ci\u003eOxherding Pictures and Verses\u003c\/i\u003e and Lao-Tzu's \u003ci\u003eDaodejing\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as poems and woodblock illustrations from Su Po-Jen's \u003ci\u003eGuide to Capturing a Plum Blossom\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world's first printed books of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the book, poems are accompanied by footnotes providing historical context, and each section includes a new and illuminating introduction chronicling Red Pine's relationship to the poet—discovery, travel, scholarship. \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a book, it is a journey: part travel essay, part road map, part guided meditation. It is a history translated in poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Red Pine, \"translating the words in a Chinese poem isn't that hard, but finding the spirit that inspired those words, the music of the heart, and asking it to inspire [his heart], that is how, and why, [he] translates.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"our luggage is full of river travel poems \u003cbr\u003e may we ride forth together again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e— Wei Yingwu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486013997292,"sku":"9781556596452","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/83d1bc9702447a89e378788be66e6342.jpg?v=1775784087"},{"product_id":"finding-them-gone-by-red-pine-9781556594892","title":"Finding Them Gone","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A travel writer with a cult following.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off. \u003cem\u003eFinding Them Gone\u003c\/em\u003e uniquely draws upon his parallel careers as a translator and a travel writer in ways that his previous books have not. A lifetime devoted to understanding Chinese culture and spirituality blossoms within its pages to create something truly rare.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A road trip with poetry—if that sounds like your kind of thing, then this is the book for you.\" - \u003cem\u003eThat's China Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo pay homage to China's greatest poets, renowned translator Bill Porter—who is also known by his Chinese name \"Red Pine\"—travelled throughout China visiting dozens of poets' graves and performing idiosyncratic rituals that featured Kentucky bourbon and reading poems aloud to the spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining travelogue, translations, history, and personal stories, this intimate and fast-paced tour of modern China celebrates inspirational landscapes and presents translations of classical poems, many of which have never before been translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePorter is a former radio commentator based in Hong Kong who specialised in travelogues. As such, he is an entertaining storyteller who is deeply knowledgeable about Chinese culture, both ancient and modern, who brings readers \u003cem\u003einto\u003c\/em\u003e the journey—from standing at the edge of the trash pit that used to be Tu Mu's grave to sitting in Han Shan's cave where the Buddhist hermit \"Butterfly Woman\" serves him tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with over one hundred photographs and two hundred poems, \u003cem\u003eFinding Them Gone\u003c\/em\u003e combines the love of travel with an irrepressible exuberance for poetry. As Porter writes: \"The graves of the poets I'd been visiting were so different. Some were simple, some palatial, some had been ploughed under by farmers, and others had been reduced to trash pits. Their poems, though, had survived... Poetry is transcendent. We carry it in our hearts and find it there when we have forgotten everything else.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn praise of Bill Porter\/Red Pine:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the travel writing that has made him so popular in China, Porter's tone is not reverential but explanatory, and filled with luminous asides... His goal is to tell interested foreigners about revealing byways of Chinese culture.\" - \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Porter is an amiable and knowledgeable guide. The daily entries themselves fit squarely in the travelogue genre, seamlessly combining the details of his routes and encounters with the poets' biographies, Chinese histories, and a generous helping of the poetry itself. Porter's knowledge of the subject and his curation of the poems make this book well worth reading for travellers and poetry readers alike. It's like a survey course in Chinese poetry—but one in which the readings are excellent, the professor doesn't take himself too seriously, and the field trips involve sharing Stagg bourbon with the deceased.\" - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Red Pine's out-of-the-mainstream work is canny and clearheaded, and it has immeasurably enhanced Zen\/Taoist literature and practice.\" - \u003cem\u003eKyoto Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bill Porter has been one of the most prolific translators of Chinese texts, while also developing into a travel writer with a cult following.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Red Pine's succinct and informative notes for each poem are core samples of the cultural, political, and literary history of China.\" - \u003cem\u003eAsian Reporter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoets' graves visited (partial list):\u003c\/strong\u003e Li Pai, Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Su Tung-p'o, Hsueh T'ao, Chia Tao, Wei Ying-wu, Shih-wu (Stonehouse), Han-shan (Cold Mountain).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBill Porter\u003c\/strong\u003e (a.k.a. \"Red Pine\") is widely recognised as one of the world's finest translators of Chinese religious and poetic texts. 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