The club turns to Du Fu, the Poet-Sage. Over eight lessons, they confront the brutal reality of the An-Shi Rebellion, building the apocalyptic historical context before reading his documentary masterpiece, the 'Three Officials, Three Partings' cycle. They analyze how Du Fu stripped away literary romanticism to record the destruction of families, the horrors of conscription, and the collapse of the state, earning his title not through escapism, but through an unflinching, lifelong endurance.