{"product_id":"guide-to-capturing-a-plum-blossom-9781556595578","title":"Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom","description":"Red Pine is the best-selling and ground-breaking translator of Chinese literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSung Po-jen: Sung Po-jen was Chinese poet of the thirteenth century.\u003cbr\u003eLo Ch'ing: Lo Ch'ing was the Executive Secretary of Chinese PEN and an advisor to Taiwan's Ministry of Culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRed Pine: Red Pine (aka Bill Porter) is one of the world's foremost translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts. He was born in Los Angeles in 1943, grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, served a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, graduated from the University of California with a degree in anthropology, and attended graduate school at Columbia University. Uninspired by the prospect of an academic career, he dropped out of Columbia and moved to a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. After four years with the monks and nuns, he struck out on his own and eventually found work at English-language radio stations in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where he interviewed local dignitaries and produced more than a thousand programs about his travels in China. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRed Pine's published translations include \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, \u003c\/i\u003e for which he was awarded the WESTAF Award in Translation; \u003ci\u003ePoems of the Masters; In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu, \u003c\/i\u003e which recieved the 2010 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize; \u003ci\u003eLao-tzu's Taoteching; The Zen Works of Stonehouse \u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGuide to Capturing a Plum Blossom\u003c\/i\u003e by Sung Po-jen, for which he was awarded a PEN West translation prize; and \u003ci\u003eThe Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eZen Baggage\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoad to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Port Townsend, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420094075154,"sku":"9781556595578","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc02cadf-a40a-4f10-894d-edd9dde30dac.jpg?v=1737114486","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/guide-to-capturing-a-plum-blossom-9781556595578","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}