Bai Xingjian

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Bai.
Statues of Bai Xingjian, Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen in Yichang, Hubei, China.

Bai Xingjian (776–826) was a fiction writer and poet in imperial China's Tang Dynasty. He was a younger brother of the famed poet Bai Juyi.

One of his most famous works is the short novel "The Tale of Li Wa" (李娃傳). 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 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.

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