Cold Mountain: The Legend of Han Shan and Shih Te, the Original Dharma Bums (A Graphic Novel)-Quality Guarantee

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Agraphic novel portrait of the wild antics and legendary poetry of the”Laughing Pair”—Han Shan and Shih Te, two of China’s greatest poets.

This is asmart, funny graphic novel exploring the life, legend, and lore of twoof the greatest poets in Chinese history—Han Shan (known as “ColdMountain”) and Shih Te—who reportedly lived during the Tang dynasty(618-906 CE). They were critics of authority (both secular andreligious) and champions of social justice who left their poetry on treetrunks and rocks. They were also reportedly monastics, drunks, cavedwellers, immortals, and many other wild and wondrous things. There ismuch delightful uncertainty about this “Laughing Pair”—includingwhether or not they actually existed. What is known is that the poetryattributed to them was greatly influential in both China and Japan, andto the Beat writers in the United States during the 1950s and ’60s.
Acclaimed manga creator Sean Michael Wilson has brought these renegadepoets to life, showing the places they went and the philosophical andmeditative aspects of their lives, as well as revealing their humor andwackiness and their penetrating insights into the human is interwoven throughout—translations by J. P. Seaton, one ofthe most respected tranlsators of Chinese poetry in the United States.