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Chinese literature: Quick Facts

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Scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Sima Qian
Tao Qian
Li Bai
Du Fu
Li Qingzhao
Xiyouji
Guo Moruo
Gao Xingjian
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Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Hu Shih
Hu Shih
Chinese leader and scholar
Can Xue
Can Xue
Chinese writer
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Ban Gu
Chinese historian
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Ouyang Xiu
Chinese author and statesman
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Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Wang Anshi
Wang Anshi
Chinese author and political reformer
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin
Chinese author
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Ding Ling
Chinese author
Chinese author Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Chinese author
Guo Moruo
Guo Moruo
Chinese scholar
Portrait of writer Zhang Ailing, also known as Eileen Chang, wearing a patterned silk jacket and round earrings, looking slightly upward.
Zhang Ailing
Chinese writer
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Qu Qiubai
Chinese leader
Du Fu
Du Fu
Chinese poet
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Lao She
Chinese author
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Bei Dao
Chinese author
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Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
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Tian Han
Chinese author
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Baren
Chinese author and critic

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Handscroll is one of a set that illustrates the 305 poems in the Shijing (The Book of Odes), a work traditionally believed to have been compiled by Confucius, by Ma Hezhi and assistants, Southern Song dynasty, mid-12th century.
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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