Du Fu (712-770): China’s Greatest Poet

Oct 28, 2016 | 9:30 AM - Oct 29, 2016 | 4:45 PM

A Conference in Honor of the Library of Chinese Humanities

Organizer: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University

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