Obelisk

Bai Juyi had found a new lake. The Tang Dynasty politician had spent two decades alternating between skillful governance of Chinese provinces and repeated exile for pissing off the imperial powers with his scathing anti-war, anti-corruption views. Like many well-educated Chinese bureaucrats of his day, Juyi was a poet—and wielded his deceptively casual verses with brutal honesty. But moral integrity is stressful, and to find peace Bai Juyi took walks. read more