Bill Porter is an American translator of Chinese poetry and spiritual texts. He translates under the name Red Pine. His 1993 travelogue "Road to Heaven" detailed the surviving Chinese hermit tradition in the Chungnan Mountains and he has since appeared in several documentaries on the subject.
Movies1 1994 HD
This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to meet Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns who live as...
Movies1 2023 HD
The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to...
Movies1 2015 HD
25 years ago, American author Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine) went to the Zhongnan Mountains to seek out modern Chinese hermits. His resulting book,...
Movies1 2009 HD
In the mountains and monasteries of China, four translators and writers recount the life and work of Tang dynasty hermit poet Han Shan (Cold...
