Chinese & Japanese

Wang Chien

c. AD 830


Wang Chien is dated by Waley to about AD 830. He is represented by two poems, one on a soldier’s return from the war and one on the southern country.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s versions in More Translations from the Chinese (1919), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

  1. Hearing that his Friend was Coming Back from the War
  2. The South
  3. A Bride

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