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Also Known As Wu Ch’eng-en
Born c.1500 • Huai’an • China
Died c.1582 • Huai’an • China
Notable Works “Journey to the West”
Tian Han
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Ba Jin
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Baren
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Qian Zhongshu
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Mu Dan
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Hu Shih
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Ouyang Xiu
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Lu Xun
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Wang Anshi
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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
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Liu Cixin
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin
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Ding Ling
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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:
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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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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