Who was Li Bai?
Q: Who was Li Bai?
A: Li Bai was a Chinese poet.
Q: Who counted Li Bai to the group of "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup"?
A: His fellow poet Du Fu counted him to the group of Chinese scholars he called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem.
Q: What is Li Bai known for in his poetry?
A: Li Bai is best known for the imagination and Taoist imagery in his poetry.
Q: How many of Li Bai's poems do we know about today?
A: We know around 1,100 of Li Bai's poems today.
Q: When were the first translations of Li Bai's poems published in a Western language?
A: The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his Poésies de l'Époque des Thang.
Q: Who introduced the English-speaking world to Li Bai's works?
A: The English-speaking world was introduced to Li Bai's works by a Herbert Allen Giles publication History of Chinese Literature (1901) and through the liberal, but poetically influential, translations of Japanese versions of his poems made by Ezra Pound.
Q: How is Li Bai said to have died?
A: People tell the story that Li Bai fell from his boat when he tried to embrace the reflection of the moon, and therefore drowned in the Yangtze River.
