As to the poet-official Po Chu-i

In 815 the Chinese poet-official Po Chu-i, having offended the authorities by his outspoken criticisms of government policy, was dismissed from his position at court and shunted off to an insignificant post in the Yangtze region far in the south, a virtual sentence of exile.

Not long after arriving at his new post, he wrote the following poem entitled

''Reading Chuang-Tzu'':

Leaving homeland, parted from kin, banished in a strange place,

I wonder my heart feels so little anguish and pain.

Consulting Chuang Tzu, I find where I belong:

surely my home is there in Not-Even-Anything land.

(From the book, ''CHUANG TZU Basic Writings'', translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press 1964)