May 16
4 min read
When Your Boss Is the Emperor and Your Absenteeism Becomes Art
The delightful tale of ‘The Night Revels of Han Xizai’
One of the best stories in Chinese art involves an emperor in the mid-10th century and one of his employees who wasn’t acting up to snuff.
As Shanghai Daily explains it, Li Yu (AD 937–978) of the Tang Dynasty was dissatisfied with Han Xizai, a…
