This book consists of one hundred sixty original poems, all on modern topics, but written in the classical Chinese style. There is a wide variety of subjects. For example: driving in winter, the Boeing 777, village life, city life, camping out, Chinese food, jungle adventures, hiking, ice sculptures, wild geese, planting trees, penguins, desert caravans, playing hide and seek, Christmas, watching outdoor movies, the Iron Lion of Cangzhou, sightseeing, football, trash day, opera, swimming, making furniture, going to the fair, wild fires, military training, Spring Festival, morning exercise,...

Poetry has always been vital to language acquisition, beginning with nursery rhymes and songs. This book, however, is intended for the intermediate and advanced student of Chinese. It contains one hundred sixty-two original poems in Chinese, on a wide variety of contemporary topics. They are all short and written in classical styles. Instructors can also use them in classroom readings and for translation exercises. Of course, Chinese parents may still read them to their children, and older children read them to their grandparents too.

Poetry has always been vital to language acquisition, beginning with nursery rhymes and songs. This book, however, is intended for all readers. It contains a hundred original poems in Chinese, with English translation, on a wide variety of contemporary topics. They are all short, in classical Chinese styles. Instructors can use them as classroom readings, and translation exercises, for beginning Chinese students, also intermediate and advanced. Chinese parents may read them to their children, and the children recite them with their grandparents.

Bai Juyi (772-846), a great poet of the Tang Dynasty of China, is a famous and very influential writer in Chinese literary history. Called the King of Poetry, his writing is realistic, on a wide variety of topics, and simple and "down-to-earth." Here are five of what many consider to be his masterpieces, in a fresh English translation, and accompanied by the original Chinese. Their titles are: The Rhyme of the Lute, The Charcoal Seller, Farewell at the Grasslands, On Seeing Wheat Harvesters, and The Song of Eternal Regret.

Here are three masterpieces of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, translated into Chinese: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kubla Kahn; and Christabel. The translation is modern, but in a classical style. The original English is also included.