A Study Guide for Tu Fu's "Jade Flower Palace"
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Jade Flower Palace
Tu Fu
757
Introduction
Jade Flower Palace
was written by the Chinese poet Tu Fu (sometimes called Du Fu) in 757. The poet was traveling on a two-hundred mile journey home when he came across a palace that had fallen into ruins. He was struck by the sight, and he used it to meditate on the transience of life, the passing of all things, and the vanity of all worldly riches and power. Everything ends in death. Nothing is immortal. The theme is a common one amongst Chinese poets, and for Western poets, too.
Tu Fu is usually regarded as the greatest of Chinese poets, although he is still little known in the West. Over fourteen hundred of his poems survive, and Jade Flower Palace
has been translated into English at least five times. William Hung, in his 1952 biography of the poet (now out of print), made a prose translation. In 1971, the poem appeared in Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, which is out of print, but Rexroth's translation is available in Holt's Elements of Literature Sixth Course, British Literature (2008). David Hinton has translated the poem under the title Jade-Blossom Palace.
Burton Watson's translation appears in his The Selected Poems of Du Fu (2002), and David Young includes the poem in his translations, Du Fu: A Life in Poetry