The shocking images of Late Dian have spread on the Web. Andrew Leonard wrote a long commentary on his How the World Works column on Salon.com:
…… a brilliant scholar named Yang Shen, originally a native of Sichuan, but forced to spend the last thirty years of his life in the frontier province of Yunnan.
Yang was a prodigious author and poet, and a great admirer of Yunnan’s fantastic natural beauty, including the acclaimed “Pearl of the Plateau” — the great Lake Dianchi, situated just to the south of the city of Kunming.
Yang wrote a poem, “Glimpses of Spring,” about the lake.
A windy lake is Dian yet never any dust is seen,
The newly green isle Ding in the far horizon lies.
Beauty one enjoys here as in land south of the Yangtse River,
A vast rippling lake in spring with distant foam lily white. [Full Text]
