Fans of Du Fu explain to Michael why he is still important to the Chinese today.
‘There’s Dante, there’s Shakespeare and there’s Du Fu’ Prof … Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet.
We are delighted to announce that SACU President Michael Wood presents his new film ‘Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet’ on BBC FOUR on Monday 6th April at 9.00pm and iPlayer (Film repeated Tuesday 7th April on BBC FOUR at 2.45am) Michael Wood and Sir Ian McKellen conjure up the life, times and words of Du Fu, one of the world’s greatest poets.
In "Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet," the BBC gives great recognition to the long tradition of Chinese poetry. One young superfan performs a special poetry reading of "Welcome Rain on a Spring Night".
[Photo/BBC] [Photo/BBC] His poetry did more than any emperor in helping to shape the nation’s values. Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet Clips The Sword Dance. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of …
Despite the fact that Du Fu is usually mentioned in the same breath as Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare by Sinologists around the world, the Chinese poet-sage, also an immortal in the East Asian cultural sphere, has still remained largely … The BBC documentary Du Fu, China's Greatest Poet features Sir Ian McKellen who gives elegant, meditative readings of Du Fu's masterpieces.
Every Chinese person learns poems by Li Bai, and the country's other favourite poet, Du Fu, from childhood. The BBC documentary Du Fu, China's Greatest Poet features Sir Ian McKellen who gives elegant, meditative readings of Du Fu's masterpieces. According to the documentary, China's poetry tradition predates Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) ruled China in the most splendid era of culture, the greatest era of poetry.
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Image caption Li Bai looks to the moon - and the bottom of a wine glass - for inspiration
These poets create the very values by which poetry is judged," remarked Harvard professor Stephen Owen in Du Fu, …
Michael Wood explains why Du Fu is still loved today. [Photo/BBC] Born in 712, the age of Beowulf in Britain, Du Fu lived under the reign of the Tang Emperor Xuanzong (713-756), a time marked by extraordinary prosperity, inclusiveness and cultural accomplishment. Image caption Li Bai looks to the moon - and the bottom of a wine glass - for inspiration
Duration: 01:44 The power of nature. Every Chinese person learns poems by Li Bai, and the country's other favourite poet, Du Fu, from childhood.
Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. That was the sort of question facing the makers of BBC4’s Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet, about a poet central to Chinese culture but mostly unknown in the UK. The BBC documentary Du Fu, China's Greatest Poet features Sir Ian McKellen who gives elegant, meditative readings of Du Fu's masterpieces.
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