What's the key to translation, especially for translating ancient Chinese poems? An American seems to have found the answer. By coincidence, Bill Porter stepped into the ancient Chinese literary world in the 1970s and that changed everything. To many Chinese, he is known as Red Pine and the author of popular books on Chinese hermits and ancient poets. Why has Chinese culture been so inspiring to him? What has he learned from it? And what is Bill Porter's secret key to translation?