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Also Known As Ku K’ai-chih
Born c.344 • Wuxi • China
Died c.406
Notable Works “Nymph of the Luo River” • “On Painting the Cloud Terrace Mountain” • “The Admonitions of the Court Instructress”

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Admonitions of the Court Instructress
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Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
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Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
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Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
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Yan Liben
Chinese painter
Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Xia Gui
Chinese artist
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
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Ouyang Xiu
Chinese author and statesman
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Lu Xun
Chinese writer
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Bei Dao
Chinese author
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Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author
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Hu Feng
Chinese literary theorist
Han Yu, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Han Yu
Chinese author
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter
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Bingxin
Chinese author
Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
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Gong Zizhen
Chinese author
Voyage to the South, detail of a handscroll by Tang Yin, 1505; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Tang Yin
Chinese painter
Huang Gongwang: Dwelling in the Fu-ch'un Mountains
Huang Gongwang
Chinese painter
Autumn in a River Valley, silk scroll in ink and colour by Guo Xi; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Guo Xi
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Zhou Fang
Chinese painter

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