Bai Xingjian (simplified Chinese:白行简;traditional Chinese:白行簡;pinyin:Bái Xíngjiǎn or Bó Xíngjiǎn;Wade–Giles:Pai Hsing-chien or Po Hsing-chien, 776–826) was a Chinese novelist, poet, and short story writer. He was a younger brother of the famed poetBai Juyi.

One of his most famous works is the novellaThe Tale of Li Wa.^[1] It has been translated into English many times:

• byArthur Waley inMore Translations from the Chinese (1919) — as "The Story of Miss Li".
• byYang Xianyi andGladys Yang inThe Dragon King's Daughter: Ten T'ang Dynasty Stories (1962) — as "Story of a Singsong Girl".
• by Glen Dudbridge inThe Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the Ninth Century (1983).

It was also translated into many other languages, for example German byFranz Kuhn and French byAndré Lévy. He is also believed to have written the poem "Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu".^[2]

EnglishWikisource has original text related to this article:

:zh:Author:白行简（段落）

• Zhongguo gudian xiaoshuo yanjiu zilao (T: 中國古典小說研究資料), ed.,Bo Xingjian yu "Li Wa zhuan" (T: 白行簡與李娃傳). Taipei:Tianyi chubanshe, 1982.

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