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Oct 6, 2022 · Four Poems by Jiang Tao. translated by Josh Stenberg. Jiang Tao (姜涛, born 1970) is a Beijing poet and literary critic and the author of four slender collections of selected and new poems: 鸟经 (Bird scripture), 好消息 (Good news), 我们共同的美好生活 (Our beautiful life together), and 洞中一日 (A day in the cave).
Jiang Tao was born in Tianjin in 1970, and studied first at Tsinghua University, only to abandon biomedical engineering for a PhD in Chinese literature at Peking University, where he began teaching in 2002.
Jiang Tao uses the perspectives of his wide range of poetic personas to criticise various aspects of contemporary Chinese society. His poems are peopled by poverty-stricken pensioners, young emigrant workers and computer nerds, among others.
Jiang Tao 姜濤 (b. 1970 in Tianjin) is a Chinese poet and Professor of Chinese at Peking University. He studied biomedical engineering at Tsinghua University, working on student poetry publications, before moving to Peking University to study literature. He has produced numerous collections of poetry, literary history, and textbooks.
The Tao Te Ching describes the Tao as the source and ideal of all existence: it is unseen, but not transcendent, immensely powerful yet supremely humble, being the root of all things. People have desires and free will (and thus are able to alter their own nature).
- Laozi
- 1969
JIANG Tao, born in 1970, initially studied engineering before deciding for literature. Today he is the editor of the journal New Poetry Criticism and Lecturer for Chinese Literature in Beijing and is one of the major voices calling for a renewal in Chinese poetry.
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Nov 20, 2018 · Tao Te Ching — a new translation of a Chinese classic. The Tao and the Power 道德經, attributed to Laozi 老子 (5th or 4th century BCE), is one of the most famous Chinese works. Previously, China Heritage has introduced chapters from a new translation of this classical text by John Minford. The full work, introduced, translated and ...
