]Main text of an early Tang Dynasty copy of Wang Xizhi's Lantingji Xu by Feng Chengsu (馮承素), located in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
This is considered the best surviving copy.
Books:
Cahill, J.: The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (1994)
Fong, W. and Watt, J.: Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum (1997)
Fong, W.: Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in the 8th-14th Century (1992)
Kraus, Richard: Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy
Ledderose, L.: Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy (1979)
Murck, A. and Fong, Wen, eds: Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting (1990)
Sturman, Peter: Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China
The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliot Collection (exh. cat. by R. Harrist, Jr., Wen Fong and others, Princeton, NJ, Art Museum, Princeton U., 1999)
Also
Du Fu: A Life in Poetry, Translated by David Young
Ursula Le Guin'sLao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Books by David Hinton
Hunger Mountain
Awakened Cosmos
Existence
Cabinet of Curiosity
Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders
Taschen "Cabinet of Curiosities (Multilingual, French and German Edition)
Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World
Images:
Nikki Romanello's Astrobiology page
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Heo Ryeon 許鍊 (also known as Sochi and Mahil 號 小癡,字 麻詰) (Korean; 1809 - 1893)
The Chinese Scholar Mi Fu (1051-1107) Paying Homage to a Fantastic Rock 米芾拜石
Korean; Joseon dynasty, dated to 1885
Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper; with signature reading "Sochi seo" 小癡寫; with four seals of the artist
Painting proper: H. 91.0 cm, W. 49.0 cm
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for the Acquisition of Oriental Art, 2003.87
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