Bill Porter
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Biography: Bill Porter is an American translator of Chinese poetry and spiritual texts. He translates under the name Red Pine. His 1993 travelogue "Road to Heaven" detailed the surviving Chinese hermit tradition in the Chungnan Mountains and he has since appeared in several documentaries on the subject.
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Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine
This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to me...
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Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who tu...
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Hermits
25 years ago, American author Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine) went to the Zhongnan Mountains to seek o...
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Cold Mountain: Han Shan
In the mountains and monasteries of China, four translators and writers recount the life and work of...
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