When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911, ...

He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang dynasty ... imperial sphere of influence reaches Central Asia for the first time.

The Tang dynasty (618–907) is known as the golden age of Chinese literature. Its poems typically have eight lines of five or seven syllables each, following strict tonal patterns and parallel ...