Abstract
For classical Chinese poets like Li Bai, a single clear moon can connect those who see it across time and space. No matter where across the vast expanse of China a poet may have to travel, in looking up he would see what his loved ones see. This same light, captured in the eternal space of the poetic image, still seems to do the same for readers nearly fifteen hundred years later. Li Bai wrote:In this essay Ge Fei discusses the long tradition of employing imagery to collapse, extend, or invoke notions of time (and space) within the classical Chinese tradition.
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