Spring Breeze, Proud Heart, and Swift Hooves: The Biography of Meng Jiao

Spring Breeze at My Back, Hooves Flying: The Biography of Meng Jiao recreates, in sweeping prose, the tragic life of the Mid-Tang poet Meng Jiao. From his arduous journey through the imperial examinations, finally passing at the age of forty-six, to the blood and tears of family love behind “The thread in a loving mother's hands,” and his unyielding courage in confronting the people's hardships, this biography blends historical research with literary imagination. Witness how a poor scholar-poet forged verses that would shine for a thousand years with his very life.