Additional Resources for Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon by Li Bai

Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon For Further Reading

Lancashire, Douglas Li Po-Yuan, Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 607, Twayne Publishers, 1981.

Lancashire's text is a book-length study of Li Po, written for American students. Though it is dated, the relevance of much of what Lancashire has to say has not changed much.

Obata, Shigeyoshi, Introduction to The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet, Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1965, pp. 1—23.

This book was for a long time the only collection of Li Po's poems available. This introduction, originally written in 1922, gives a comprehensive overview of the poet's life and works.

Owen, Stephen, The End of the Chinese 'Middle Ages': Essays in Mid-tang Literary Culture, Stanford University Press, 1996.

Owens's book covers the period that begins late in Li Po's life, but it gives readers a good cultural context for how he...
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