"A Floating Life" is a novel by Simon Elegant, a fictional "autobiography" of the famed Chinese poet Li Bai (Po Li) of the Tang Dynsty.
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- Jul 10, 1999
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Simon Elegant is a journalist and author. He is one of the authors of the China Blog of TIME Magazine.
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