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Li Baojia
Late Qing journalist and novelist who founded newspapers, edited Xiuxiang xiaoshuo and wrote Officialdom Unmasked
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Li Boyuan · Boyuan · Nanting Tingzhang · Youxi Zhuren
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Li Baojia, courtesy name Boyuan and pen name Nanting tingzhang, came from Wujin in Jiangsu and was born in Shandong in 1867; he was a late Qing novelist and journalist. He founded the newspapers Zhinan bao, Youxi bao and Shijie fanhua bao and edited the magazine Xiuxiang xiaoshuo. His novel Officialdom Unmasked was serialised in Shijie fanhua bao; planned at 120 chapters, it reached sixty, and by one account Ouyang Juyuan wrote the last few. Lu Xun's Brief History of Chinese Fiction classes it as a novel of denunciation. He died in 1906.
Life and times
Dates 1867 - 1906