A Seattle Times article about Bill Porter (also known as Red Pine), translator of ancient Chinese hermit-poets Cold Mountain and Stonehouse, author of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. URL: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2001845874_redpine29.html
Chinese eremitism in art
By way of Australian National University comes an assembly by a faculty member of Northwestern University of several interesting images of eremitism from the the 14th-century Yuan period at http://vandyck.anu.edu.au/work/teach/context/faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/art-history/fraser/b40/Eremitism_in_Yuan_Painting.html.