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Also Known As Pei Tao • Zhao Zhenkai • Beidao
Born August 2, 1949 (age 77) • Beijing • China
Founder “Jintian”
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Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author
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Hu Feng
Chinese literary theorist
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Ziya Gökalp
Turkish author
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Donald Davidson
American author
Hu Shih
Hu Shih
Chinese leader and scholar
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Ouyang Xiu
Chinese author and statesman
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Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Han Yu, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Han Yu
Chinese author
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Bingxin
Chinese author
Admonitions of the Court Instructress
Gu Kaizhi
Chinese painter
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Gong Zizhen
Chinese author
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
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John Donne
English poet
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet

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