Bai Xingjian (, 776–826) was a Chinese novelist and poet in imperial China's

Tang Dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

. He was a younger brother of the famed poet Bai Juyi. One of his most famous works is the novella '' The Tale of Li Wa''. It has been translated into English many times: * by Arthur Waley in ''More Translations from the Chinese'' (1919) — as "The Story of Miss Li". * by

Yang Xianyi Yang Xianyi (; January 10, 1915 – November 23, 2009) was a Chinese literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including '' Dream of the Red Mansions''. Life and career Born into a wea ...

and Gladys Yang in ''The Dragon King's Daughter: Ten T'ang Dynasty Stories'' (1962) — as "Story of a Singsong Girl". * by Glen Dudbridge in ''The Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century'' (1983). It was also translated into many other languages, for example German by Franz Kuhn and French by André Lévy. He is also believed to have written the poem " Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu".

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