Tuesday, August 05, 2008

News at Eleven: Du [Fu] was a humanist.

His writing style is revered both for its manifest sympathy for people's sufferings and resentment of injustice and corruption.

Almost every Chinese knows two of his most famous lines: "Meat and wine go bad in lordly mansions, while the roads are strewn with bones of those killed by the cold." The lines are still quoted to condemn the sharp contrast between the lives of the haves and have-nots.

from China Daily: Chengdu tourist sites intact, still yield their wonders

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