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Event Details
April 22, 2011
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The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Friends’ Hall
1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108
United States

Public Talk - San Marino, CA

“Drink to Me Only with the Moon and my Shadow”: Li Bai as a Romantic and Daoist Poet

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In this lecture, Prof. Cheung will introduce the life of the Chinese poet Li Bai 李白 (701-762) who was known for his drinking songs in rapture with wine. "Drunk" is a misnomer for the poet’s condition because in Chinese, the word means being mentally carried away from one's normal preoccupations rather than intoxication or inebriation.