List of Chinese language poets
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≈Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China
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- A Lixiying阿里西瑛 Yuan dynasty
- A Liyaoqing阿里耀卿 Yuan dynasty
- A Luwei阿鲁威 Yuan dynasty
- Ai Changji哀长吉 Song dynasty
- Ai Chou艾丑 Song dynasty
- Ai Keshu艾可叔 Song dynasty
- Ai Keweng艾可翁 Song dynasty
- Ai Qian哀谦 Song dynasty
- Ai QingAi QingAi Qing and styled Jiǎng Hǎichéng ; March 27, 1910 – May 5, 1996), is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets. He was known under his pen names Línbì , Kè'ā and Éjiā .-Life:...
- Ai Shan爱山 Yuan dynasty
- Ai Shen艾申 Song dynasty
- Ai Xingfu艾性夫 Song dynasty
- An Ao安鏖 Song dynasty
- An Bing安丙 Song dynasty
- An Changqi安昌期 Song dynasty
- An Deyu安德裕 Song dynasty
- An Fen Anzhu安分庵主 Song dynasty
- An Feng安凤 Tang dynasty
- An Hongjian安鸿渐 Tang dynasty
- An Lin安麐 Tang dynasty
- An QiAn QiAn Qi is a Chinese football goalkeeper. An Qi was also included in the Chinese national squad that played during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, however he did not feature in any of the games.-Club career:...
安锜 Tang dynasty - An Rushan安如山 Song dynasty
- An Xi安熙 Yuan dynasty
- An Zhen安稹 Song dynasty
- An Shoufan安守范 Tang dynasty
- An Yi Fang Nv安邑坊女 Tang dynasty
- Ao Dunzhouqing奥敦周卿 Yuan dynasty
- Ao Mai敖迈 Song dynasty
- Ao Taosun敖陶孙 Song dynasty
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- Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
- Consort BanConsort BanConsort Ban called Ban Jieyu . Jieyu was a title for a concubine, her personal name is not known.-Life:Consort Ban started as a junior maid, became a concubine of Emperor Cheng and quickly rose to prominence at court. She bore him two sons, but both died in infancy...
- Ban GuBan GuBan Gu , courtesy name Mengjian , was a 1st century Chinese historian and poet best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han. He also wrote in the main poetic genre of the Han era, a kind of poetry interspersed with prose called fu. Some are anthologized by Xiao Tong in his Selections of...
(32–92 A.D.) - Bao Zhao
- Bei DaoBei DaoBei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...
- Bei LingBei LingBei Ling is a Chinese poet, and journal editor.He came to the United States on an exchange, he was a fellow at Brown University....
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- Cai WenjiCai WenjiCai Wenji , also known as Cai Yan, was a Han Dynasty poet and composer. She was the daughter of Cai Yong, also a musician. Her style name was originally Zhaoji, but it was changed to Wenji during the Jin Dynasty to avoid a naming conflict with Sima Zhao.She spent part of her life as a prisoner of...
- Cai YongCai YongCai Yong was a Chinese scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was well-versed in calligraphy, music, mathematics and astronomy. One of his daughters is the famous Cai Wenji.-Early life:...
- Cao CaoCao CaoCao Cao was a warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the dynasty's final years. As one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms period, he laid the foundations for what was to become the state of Cao Wei and was posthumously titled...
曹操 - Cao PiCao PiCao Pi , formally known as Emperor Wen of Wei, was the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Born in Qiao County, Pei Commandery , he was the second son of the late Han Dynasty warlord Cao Cao.Cao Pi, like his father, was a poet...
- Cao ZhiCao ZhiCao Zhi was a poet who lived during the late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. His poetry style, greatly revered during the Jin Dynasty and Southern and Northern Dynasties, came to be known as the Jian'an style....
- Chen Zi'angChen Zi'angChen Ziang –702) was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. He was important in helping to bring into being the type of poetry which is considered to be characteristically "Tang". Dissatisfied with the current state of the affairs of poetry at the time, almost paradoxically, by keeping his eye...
- Chūgan EngetsuChugan Engetsu, Japanese poet, occupies a prominent place in Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains, literature in Chinese written in Japan. Chugan's achievement was his mastery of this difficult medium, a signal of the ripening of Five Mountains poetry and prose in Japan. He was born in Kamakura of a family...
(1300–1375), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan) - Cui HaoCui Hao (poet)Cui Hao was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty in China.Cui Hao was born in Biànzhōu and passed the imperial examinations in 723. He is known to have traveled extensively as an official, particularly between the years 723-744. He was known for three poetry topic - women, frontier outposts, and...
, Tang dynasty poet
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- Feng Yansi
- FengganFengganFenggan was a Chinese Zen monk-poet lived in the Tang Dynasty, associated with Hanshan and Shide in the famed "Tiantai Trio" .-Biography:...
, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist Monk. He was an associate of the famous legendary poets Han Shan and Shih Te. - Fu TianlinFu tianlinFu Tianlin is a Chinese poet.She was born in the Chinese province of Sichuan, where she still resides. In 1961, after graduating, she worked at an orchard in the countryside, while also working on her poems....
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- Gao QiGao QiGao Qi , style name Ji Di 季迪, pseudonym Qinqiuzhi 青丘子 is generally acknowledged as the greatest poet of the Ming dynasty in China. He was born and raised in the shore of Wusong River, north of Puli Town near Suzhou...
, Ming dynasty poet - Gidō ShūshinGido Shushin, 1325–1388), Japanese luminary of the Zen Rinzai sect, was a master of poetry and prose in Chinese . Gidō’s own diary relates how as a child he discovered and treasured the Zen classic Rinzairoku in his father’s library. He was born in Tosa on the island of Shikoku and began formal study of...
- Gu ChengGu ChengGu Cheng was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets.-Biography:...
- Gu TaiqingGu TaiqingGu Taiqing was a Qing poettessShe was of Manchu descent. Like several other women writers and poets, she had Shi Yunyu as a supporter. She was also a friend of Liang Desheng, a female writer of tan-ci....
- Guan DaoshengGuan DaoshengGuan Daosheng was a Chinese poet and painter who was active during the Yuan Dynasty.She was born in Huzhou and was the wife of Zhao Mengfu. She was talented in calligraphy and painting ink bamboo and plum with delicate and elegant strokes...
- Guo MoruoGuo MoruoGuo Moruo , courtesy name Dingtang , was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official from Sichuan, China.-Family history:Guo, originally named Guo Kaizhen, was born on November 10 or 16, in the small town of Shawan...
, poet, historian, archaeologist
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- Hai ZiHai ZiHai Zi is the pen name of the Chinese poet Zha Haisheng . He was one of the most famous poets in Mainland China after the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide by lying on the path of a train in Shanhaiguan at the age of 25.-Life:Zha Haisheng was born in an agricultural family of a small...
海子, modern mystic poet - Han YuHan YuHan Yu , born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet, during the Tang dynasty. The Indiana Companion calls him "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the Chinese literary tradition . He stood for strong...
韩愈 - Han Shan, "Cold Mountain"
- He ZhizhangHe ZhizhangHe Zhizhang , courtesy name Jizhen , was a Chinese poet born in present-day Xiaoshan, Zhejiang during the Tang Dynasty, and is one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup. His well-known works include On Returning Home.-References:...
- Huang TingjianHuang TingjianHuang Tingjian was a Chinese artist. He is predominantly known as a calligrapher, but was also admired for his painting and poetry. He was one of the Four masters of the Song Dynasty, and was a student of Su Shi at his school of literati painting.Huang is generally regarded as the finest and most...
黄庭堅 (1045–1105) - Huang Tao黄滔（840-911）
- Huarui FurenHuarui FurenHuarui Furen was a female Chinese poet.She was the favorite concubine of Emperor Meng Chang of Later Shu , one of the Ten Kingdoms that China was split up in after the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907. Shu was located in Sichuan....
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- Li Gou
- Li HeLi HeLi He , courtesy name Changji , was a short-lived Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginative style.-Biography:...
- Li Hou Zhu
- Li Po (or Li Bai 李白) the "Poet Immortal"
- Li QiaoLi QiaoLi Jiao , courtesy name Jushan , formally the Duke of Zhao , was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reigns of Wu Zetian, her sons Emperor Zhongzong and Emperor Ruizong, and her grandson Emperor Shang.- Background :It is not...
, Tang poet - Li QingzhaoLi QingzhaoLi Qingzhao was a Chinese writer and poet of the Song Dynasty, regarded by many as the premier female poet in the Chinese language.-Biography:She was born Li Qingzhao (Traditional Chinese: 李清照; Simplified Chinese: 李清照, pinyin: Lǐ Qīngzhào; Wade-Giles: Li Ch'ing-chao, pseudonym Yi'an Jushi (易安居士...
- Li ShangyinLi ShangyinLi Shangyin , courtesy name Yishan , was a Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, born in Henei . Along with Li He, he was much admired and "rediscovered" in the 20th century by the young Chinese writers for the imagist quality of his poems...
- Li Yu (Li HouzhuLi HouzhuLi Houzhu , also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang , personal name Li Yu , né Li Congjia , courtesy name Chongguang , posthumously known as Prince of Wu , was the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms...
) - Liang DeshengLiang DeshengLiang Desheng was a Chinese poet and writer active during the Qing Dynasty. She was the wife of a prominent intellectual from Hangzhou. Since her sister died young, Liang Desheng acted as a surrogate mother for her niece Wang Duan, who would become an editor...
- Lin HuiyinLin HuiyinLin Huiyin was a noted 20th century Chinese architect and writer. She is said to be the first female architect in China. Her niece is Maya Lin.-Biography:...
- Liu YuxiLiu YuxiLiu Yuxi was a Chinese poet, philosopher, and essayist, active during the Tang Dynasty. He was an associate of Bai Juyi and was known for his folk-style poems.- External links :* * *...
- Liu ZongyuanLiu ZongyuanLiu Zongyuan , courtesy name Zihou , was a Chinese writer who lived in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi, along with Han Yu, he was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement...
- Lu Guimong
- Lu JiLu JiLu Ji , style name Shiheng , was a writer and literary critic of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.-Biography:Lu Ji was a direct descendant of the founders of Eastern Wu and son of the general Lu Kang...
- Lu YouLu YouLu You , was a Chinese poet of the Southern Song dynasty.-Early life and marriage:Lu You was born on a boat floating in the Wei River early on a rainy morning, October 17, 1125...
- Lu YuLu YuLu Yu is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea , the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.-Biography:...
- Luo BinwangLuo BinwangLuo Binwang , courtesy name Guanguang , was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. His family was from modern Wuzhou, Zhejiang, but he was raised in Shandong...
, Tang poet - Liu Chaoqing
- Lu ZhiLu Zhi (poet)Lu Zhi was Chinese writer of the Yuan dynasty. His courtesy name was Chudao and his pen name was Shuzhai . He was born in modern Zhuozhou, Hebei, although some accounts claim he was from modern Yongjia, Zhejiang....
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- Ma RongMa RongMa Rong , courtesy name Jichang , was a commentator of the Han Dynasty. He was born in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi in former Fufeng county. He was known for his commentaries on the books on the Five Classics, and the first scholar known to have done this. He also developed the double column...
- Mang KeMang KeMang Ke , born in 1951, is a prominent Chinese poet and co-founder of the underground literary journal Today, which appeared irregularly between 1978 and 1980 before being shut down by the Chinese Government....
- Mao ZedongMao ZedongMao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
- Mei YaochenMei YaochenMei Yaochen was a poet of the Song dynasty. He was one of the pioneers of the "new subjective" style of poetry which characterized Song poetry....
, Song dynasty poet - Meng HaoranMeng HaoranMeng Haoran was a Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. Unsuccessful in his official career, he mainly lived in and wrote about his birthplace....
, Tang dynasty poet - Mi HengMi HengMi Heng was a scholar who lived during the late Han Dynasty of China.Mi was a close friend of Kong Rong, who recommended Mi Heng to Cao Cao. Cao Cao summoned Mi Heng to the capital of Xuchang but did not offer Mi Heng a seat...
- Mu DanMu DanMu Dan was one of the most important poets of 20th century China. Born Zha Liangzheng in Tianjin, China in 1918, he matriculated the prestigious Tsinghua University at the age of 17, and graduated from National Southwestern Associated University in 1940...
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- Natsume SōsekiNatsume Soseki, born ', is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period . He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales...
, Japan's modern composer of Chinese poetry - Nalan XingdeNalan XingdeNalan Xingde was a Chinese poet active during the Qing Dynasty, famous for his ci poetry. He was actually born Nalan Chengde , but had to change his name when the Kangxi Emperor named Yinreng, whose birth name also had the character cheng , the crown prince...
- Ouyang XiuOuyang XiuOuyang Xiu was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty. He is also known by his courtesy name of Yongshu, and was also self nicknamed The Old Drunkard 醉翁, or Householder of the One of Six 六一居士 in his old age...
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- Shangguan Wan'erShangguan Wan'erShangguan Wan'er , imperial consort rank Zhaorong , posthumous name Wenhui , was the granddaughter of Shangguan Yi and was one of the women most famous in Chinese history for her talent...
- Shen ShanbaoShen ShanbaoShen Shanbao was a Chinese poet and writer active during the Qing Dynasty.Her birthplace was Hangzhou, but she moved to Beijing in 1837. She was friends with the writer Ding Pei, who wrote a preview for her first poetry collection in 1836....
- Shen YueShen YueShen Yue , courtesy name Xiuwen , was a poet, statesman, and historian born in Huzhou, Zhejiang. He served emperors under the Liu Song Dynasty, the Southern Qi Dynasty, and the Liang Dynasty....
- Shen QuanqiShen QuanqiShen Quanqi , also known as Yunqing , was a Chinese poet active during the Tang Dynasty. He was born in the prefecture of Neihuang in the province of Xiangzhou , which is known today as the province of Henan....
- Shih-TeShih-TeShide was a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet at the Guoqing Temple on Mount Tiantai on the East China Sea coast; roughly contemporary with Hanshan and Fenggan, but younger than both of them. As close friends the three of them formed the "Tiantai Trio"...
, "Pick-Up" - Shih-wuShih-wuShiwu or Stonehouse was a Chinese Chan poet and hermit. He served as abbot of Fuyuan Temple for eight years.American translator Red Pine translated Shiwu's poems into English.-External links:***...
, "Stonehouse" - Shivaza IasyrIasyr ShivazaIasyr Shivaza or Shiwaza was a Soviet Dungan poet, writer, editor, and scholar.- Name spelling :The writer's name was spelled Jasƅl Sƅvazƅ in the Latin-based Dungan alphabet that was in use in 1932-53, and Ясыр Шывазы in the modern Cyrillic Dungan alphabet...
, wrote in the DunganDungan languageThe Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.-History:...
(Soviet Hui peopleHui peopleThe Hui people are an ethnic group in China, defined as Chinese speaking people descended from foreign Muslims. They are typically distinguished by their practice of Islam, however some also practice other religions, and many are direct descendants of Silk Road travelers.In modern People's...
) dialect - Shu TingShu TingShu Ting is the pseudonyms of Gong Peiyu , a Chinese poet.-Life:...
- Sima XiangruSima XiangruSima Xiangru, also known as Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju was a Chinese writer. He was a minor official of the Western Han Dynasty, but was better known for his poetic skills, jiu business, and controversial marriage to the widow Zhuo Wenjun after both eloped...
- Song YuSong YuSong Yu was a well-known Chinese poet in the State of Chu. He is commonly said to have been a nephew of Qu Yuan, but no reliable biographical information is available...
- Su Dongpo, poet
- Su ShiSu ShiSu Shi , was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era. His courtesy name was Zizhan and his pseudonym was Dongpo Jushi , and he is often referred to as Su Dongpo...
- Su XiaoxiaoSu XiaoxiaoSu Xiaoxiao , also known as Su Xiaojun and sometimes by the appellation "Little Su", was a famous courtesan and poet from Qiantang city in the Southern Qi Dynasty...
- Shang TingShang TingThe Yuan 元 period writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry, Shang Ting 商挺 , was also known as Shang Mengqing 商孟卿 and also known in old age as “The Old Man of Zuo Mountain” 左 山老人. He was from Shandong 山東 Province. Shang and his entire family were on familiar terms with the poet and statesman Yuan Haowen 元好問...
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- Wang AnshiWang AnshiWang Anshi was a Chinese economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted controversial, major socioeconomic reforms...
- Wang BoWang BoWang Bo , courtesy name Zi'an , was a Chinese poet in the Tang Dynasty.Wang Bo is one of the Four Literary Eminences in Early Tang, known as ChuTangSiJie . He opposed the spread of the Gong Ti Style of the Sui Dynasty, and advocated a style rich in emotions...
- Wang CanWang CanWang Can was a politician, scholar and poet during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history. He contributed greatly to the establishment of laws and standards during the founding days of the Principality of Wei – predecessor to the later Cao Wei kingdom – under Cao Cao...
- Wang ChanglingWang ChanglingWang Changling was a major Tang Dynasty poet. His zi was Shaobo . He was originally from Taiyuan in the Shanxi province of China, according to the editors of the Three Hundred Tang Poems, although other sources claim that he was actually from Jiangning near modern-day Nanjing...
- Wang Rong
- Wang WeiWang WeiWang Wei , was a Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman. He was one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his time. Many of his poems are preserved, and twenty-nine were included in the highly influential 18th century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.-Name...
, the "Poet Buddha" - Wang Wei (17th century poet)Wang Wei (17th century poet)Wang Wei was a Chinese poet.Orphaned at the age of seven, she became a prostitute in Yangzhou. In later life she was twice married and twice widowed, before becoming a priestess with the name "Taoist Master in the Straw coat". Thereafter she traveled throughout central China on a boat, writing...
- Wang Yi-Ch'engWang Yi-Ch'engWang Yucheng was a Chinese poet from Chuyeh in the Shandong province. He served in a government post and was known for forthright criticism of policies; this led to his eventual banishment to the South....
, poet - Wang Yun (Qing Dynasty)Wang Yun (Qing Dynasty)Wang Yun was a Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing Dynasty.Her birthplace is Chang'an. In her poems she writes about the frustration of educated women, who were not allowed to have a career, nor were they accepted by men as intellectual equals. The Huaiqing Tang ji contains over 200 of her...
- Wei ZhuangWei ZhuangWei Zhuang , style name Duanyi , was a Chinese poet and late Tang period historical figure, is best known for his poetry in shi and ci styles. He was born into a family of minor scholars in Duling , a town southwest of the capital Changan....
- Wen Pei Xin
- Wen TingyunWen TingyunWen Tingyun born as Wen Qi , styled Feiqing was an important Chinese lyricist of the late Tang Dynasty. He helped establish the Ci in chinese poetry.He was born in Qin, Shanxi province, China.Yu Xuanji was among his followers....
- Wen YiduoWen YiduoWen Yiduo , born Wén Jiāhuá , courtesy names Yǒusān , Youshan , was a Chinese poet and scholar.-Biography:Wen was born in Xishui County, Hubei. After receiving a traditional education he went on to continue studying at the Tsinghua University. In 1922, he traveled to the United States to study fine...
- Wu Cheng'enWu Cheng'enWu Cheng'en , courtesy name Ruzhong , pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, best known for being the attributed author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West.-Biography:Wu was born in Lianshui, in Jiangsu...
, Ming novelist, poet - Wu JiajiWu JiajiWu Jiaji was a Chinese poet, and an associate of the official and literary figure Zhou Lianggong.Wu’s writings provide us with a glimpse of conditions just prior to the Manchu Qing conquest and especially descriptions of social conditions in rural society. Wu was from Taizhou, Jiangsu, an area...
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- Xi KangXi KangJi Kang was a Chinese author, poet, Taoist philosopher, musician and alchemist. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.-Biography:As a thinker, Ji Kang Ji Kang(223–262) was a Chinese author, poet, Taoist philosopher, musician and alchemist. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo...
(or Ji Kang) - Xi XiXi XiXi Xi is the pseudonym of the Chinese author and poet Zhang Yan . She was born in China and came to Hong Kong at the age of twelve. She was a teacher and now a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China...
- Xiao GangXiao GangXiao Gang is currently chairman of the board of directors of Bank of China Limited and Bank of China Limited. From 1998 to his appointment to his current position in 2003, he was a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank of the People's Republic of China.-Biography:Xiao...
(Emperor Jianwen of Liang) - Xie Huilian
- Xie LingyunXie LingyunXie Lingyun , also known as the Duke of Kangle , was one of the foremost Chinese poets of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.-Biography:...
- Xie TiaoXie TiaoXie Tiao , his style name is Xuan Hui. Xie Tiao was born in Yangjia.He was one of the foremost Chinese poets of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.He was known as "Xiao Xie" compared with Xie Lingyun....
- Xie Zhuang
- Xin QijiXin QijiXīn Qìjí was a Chinese poet, military leader, and statesman during the Southern Song dynasty.-Life:During Xin's lifetime, northern China was occupied by the Jin or Jurchen, a nomadic people from what is now north-east China then regarded as barbarians. Only southern China was ruled by the Han...
- Ouyang XiuOuyang XiuOuyang Xiu was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty. He is also known by his courtesy name of Yongshu, and was also self nicknamed The Old Drunkard 醉翁, or Householder of the One of Six 六一居士 in his old age...
, Song statesman, historian, poet - Lady Xu MuLady Xu MuLady Xu Mu （许穆夫人）was a princess of the state of Wei , and the first recorded female poet in Chinese history.-Life:She was married to Count Mu of Xu, and although her surname was Ji, she became known as Lady Xu Mu or sometimes the Countess of Xu...
- Xu Zhi Mo 1895-1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
- Xu ZihuaXu ZihuaXu Zihua was a Chinese poet.She was educated at home and interested in poetry from an early age. She became a widow when she was still young and became the principal of Xunxi Girls' School. Both she and her sister Xu Yunhua were part of the South Association. In 1906, she hired Qiu Jin, an...
- Xue TaoXue TaoXue Tao , courtesy name Hongdu , together with Yu Xuanji and Li Ye was one of the three best-known female Chinese poets from the Tang Dynasty, though there were many others.-Life:...
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- Yan Yanzhi
- Yang LianYang LianYang Lian is a Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school....
- Yang WanliYang WanliYang Wanli was a Chinese poet, born in Jishui, Jiangxi. He was one of the "four masters" of Song Dynasty poetry....
- Yang Xiong
- John YauJohn YauJohn Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978...
- Yu Xuanji, or Yu Hsuan-chi
- Yu Xin
- Yuan HongdaoYuan HongdaoYuan Hongdao was Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. His life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period in Chinese history. Yuan was from Gong'an in Hukuang. His family had been military officials for generations. Yuan showed an interest in literature from...
- Yuan ZhenYuan ZhenYuan Zhen , courtesy name Weizhi , was a politician of the middle Tang Dynasty, but is more known as an important Chinese writer and poet, particularly for work Yingying's Biography , which was often adapted for other treatments, including operatic and musical ones...
- Yuan ZhongdaoYuan ZhongdaoYuan Zhongdao 袁中道, , Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official was born in Kung-an in Hukuang. He shares his fame with two other brothers, Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Hongdao . The three brothers dominated the literature of the period. From a family of financial means, they printed and...
- Yao ShouzhongYao ShouzhongThe Chinese poet Yao Shouzhong 姚守中 is thought to have been from the city of Luoyang 洛陽 in present Henan 河南. He dates are unclear. However, he seems to have been the nephew of the writer and official Yao Sui 姚燧 who lived from 1238 to 1313. Yao Shouzhong would then have lived in the early 14th century...
- Yao SuiYao SuiYao Sui 姚燧, writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry and official, was the nephew of the noted official Yao Shu 姚樞 and uncle of the dramatist and sanqu poet Yao Shouzhong 姚守中. At three he was orphaned. He was raised by his uncle Yao Shu. He began his studies with the scholar Xu Heng...
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- Zhai YongmingZhai YongmingZhai Yongming is a Chinese poet from Chengdu. After being sent away for two years during the Cultural Revolution to do manual labor in the countryside, she returned to Chengdu....
- Zhang HengZhang HengZhang Heng was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar from Nanyang, Henan. He lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China. He was educated in the capital cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, and began his career as a...
- Zhang HuaZhang HuaZhang Hua , style name Maoxian , was a Jin Dynasty official and poet. He was a native of Fangcheng County, Zhili.-Background:...
- Zhang Ji (poet from Hubei)
- Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)Zhang Ji , Chinese style name Wen Chang 文昌, c. 766-c. 830), and transliterated Chang Chi2 by Giles, was a Tang Dynasty poet and scholar.A native of 烏江 Niaojiang in Jiangnan, he was patronised by the great Han Yu, whom he even ventured to take to task for his fondness for dice. The latter in 815...
- Zhang JiulingZhang JiulingZhang Jiuling , courtesy name Zishou , nickname Bowu , formally Count Wenxian of Shixing , was a prominent minister, noted poet and scholar of the Tang Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.- Background :Zhang Jiuling was born in 673, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong...
- Zhang Xie
- Zhang XuZhang XuZhang Xu may refer to:* Cho U , known as Zhang Xu in pinyin, Taiwanese Go player currently resides in Japan* Zhang Xu , Chinese calligrapher in Tang Dynasty...
- Zhao LuoruiZhao Luorui-Biography:Luorui published since the early 1940s. She gained a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948 and returned to teach English and North American literature at Peking University, Beijing. She was married to Chen Mengjia, an archaeologist and expert on oracle bones...
- Zheng MinZheng MinZheng Min is a Chinese scholar and poet. She studied philosophy in China and has published modernist poetry since her student days in the early 1940s. In the 1940s, she traveled to the United States, gaining an MA in literature from Brown University, and returned to China in 1955...
- Zheng YunduanZheng YunduanZheng Yunduan was a Chinese poetess in the Yuan Dynasty, whose stylename was Zhengshu.Her family came from Suzhu and was known for its scholars. Zheng Yunduan's father and brothers were all teachers.-References:*...
- Zhu ShuzhenZhu ShuzhenZhu Shuzhen was a Chinese poet who lived during the Song dynasty. She married an official with whom she had a bad marriage. She either had an affair or committed suicide and her parents burned poetry by her hand....
- Zhuo WenjunZhuo WenjunZhuo Wenjun, or Wen Jun, 卓文君 was a Chinese poet of the Western Han dynasty. As a young widow, Zhuo Wenjun eloped with the poet Sima Xiangru. The poem Baitou Yin which complains at the inconstancy of male love, is attributed to her....
- Zuo SiZuo SiZuo Si , courtesy name Taichong , was a writer and poet of the Western Jin.-Biography:...
See also
- Chinese poetryChinese poetryChinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
- Song Dynasty poets (list)
- Three Hundred Tang Poems (list of poets)Three Hundred Tang PoemsThe Three Hundred Tang Poems is an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty first compiled around 1763 by Sun Zhu , the Qing scholar also known as Hengtang Tuishi . Various later editions also exist...
- Tang Dynasty poets (list)
- List of Chinese authors
- List of Hong Kong poets