Paul Rouzer is professor of Asian languages and literatures at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese and Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction | Who Gets to Climb Cold Mountain?
Part One | The Poet
1. Who Was Hanshan?
2. Who Was Hanshan, Again?
Part Two | The Poems
3. Juxtapositions
4. At Home and Abroad
5. Tropes
6. Satire
Part Three | Reading Buddhists
7. Who Gets to Climb the Matterhorn?
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Associate professor of Chinese language and literature, University of Minnesota; author of A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007), Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), and Writing Another's Dream: The Poetry of Wen Tingyun (Stanford University Press, 1993).