Over the last several decades, Owen has distinguished himself as one of the world's foremost scholars of the poetry of the Tang dynasty (618-906)...As always, Owen's analysis of literary history is keen and penetrating, and his translations from the Chinese are both readable and faithful to the original poems. This is one of the most important studies on Tang poetry to appear in recent years.
   --J. M. Hargett, Choice

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University with joint appointments in the Department of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Read More by Stephen Owen:

• Readings in Chinese Literary Thought
• Mi-lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire
• Remembrances: The Experience of Past in Classical Chinese Literature
• The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project
• The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry