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Also Known As Wu Ching-tzu
Born 1701 • China
Died December 12, 1754 (aged 53) • Yangzhou • China
Notable Works “The Scholars”
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Chinese author
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Zhang Tianyi
Chinese author
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Xiao Hong
Chinese writer
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Liu E
Chinese writer
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
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Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Roman author
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Thomas Nashe
English writer
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Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
German novelist
Spanish poet Quevedo y Villegas
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas
Spanish writer
Lesage, engraving by J.-B. Guelard, 18th century
Alain-René Lesage
French author
Can Xue
Can Xue
Chinese writer
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Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin
Chinese author
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Ding Ling
Chinese author
Chinese author Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Chinese author
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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Lao She
Chinese author
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Baren
Chinese author and critic
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Ba Jin
Chinese author