CDs

Love Poems from China

LOVE is, so is POETRY, the universal language. We wish to offer these Love Poems of China spanning twenty centuries, to enliven and enlighten you.

Since most of the existing love poems from ancient China were written by men, often using the voices from the womens’s point of view. The reason was to allow men to express more tender emotions, personal feelings that might conflict with their official images as statesmen and idealistically, patriotic and heroic administrators – as were most of these poets, including Li Bai, Du Fu of Tang Dynasty and Su Dong Buo of Song Dynasty.

Writing with borrowed voices also allowed male poets to explore deeper terrains of human feelings of others, through the female courtesans who sang and danced, and provided intimate physical as well as intellectual exchanges for these men, normally not posssible to experience in their own traditional households. It was almost conventional to use women’s voices by these poets, to freely express themselves in love poetry, to express a broad range of male desires, even suppressed political sentiments subtly.

You can order the CD for US$15 each plus shipping costs (US US$4, other places US$10).

Songs and Poems of My Homeland

Chungliang’s sister Pearl Weng Liang made this audio collection to honor their mother, Mrs. Chi Chang Lee Huang. The poems are translated and read by Weng Liang.  The folk songs are sung in Chinese. For more information and translations of the songs, contact Weng Liang at: ruyistudiotaos@gmail.com

Copyright: Pearl Weng Liang Huang, 2022 Taos, New Mexico, USA

You can order the CD for US$15 each plus shipping costs (US US$4, other places US$10).

The Tao of Poetry

For more than a decade, Chungliang and David Darling have been exploring the development of a series of Chinese poetry recordings. The first in this series of CDs is finally completed with poetry by eleven Chinese poets.

From Tao Chien’s classic hermitage song, “No Words,” from Year 400, to Wong Wuxiu’s poem, “Seeking Finding,” written in 1993, these poems feature Chinese chanting in original language and free-flowing English translations by Chungliang, complemented by deeply integrated and soulful music composed and played by David. They have selected a range of poems to enlighten hearts and minds.

The Zen of Poetry

1. Zen of Poetry Introduction
2. My Heart is Not the Same as Yours
3. Let’s Hide Out At Cold Mountain (Journey of Hanashan)
4. Cold Mountain Has Many Hidden Wonders
5. The Path To Han-Shan’s Place is Laughable
6. Clamoring up the Cold Mountain Path: Rough and Dark/I Settled at Cold M
7. My Poems are Simply Poems
8. Even Monkeys Can Be Taught
9. Oh! Laughing At This Old Man’s Body
10. I Sigh When I See Wordly Folks Searching in the Dark
11. There’s a Naked Bug at Cold Mountain
12. In These Tangled Cliffs, I Have Found My Place
13. When Ever Cold Mountain/Han-Shan Stops To Visit
14. Neither Going or Coming
15. The Monkey and the Moon