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Wu Jianren
Late Qing novelist from Nanhai, editor of Yueyue xiaoshuo and author of Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed over Two Decades
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 Wu Woyao · Wo Foshanren · Woyao · Jianren
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Wu Jianren, originally named Woyao, pen name Wo Foshan Ren, from Foshan in Nanhai, Guangdong, was born in 1866, a late Qing novelist. From 1906 he edited the magazine Yueyue xiaoshuo. His best-known novel, Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed over Two Decades, is told in the first person and is counted among the four great novels of denunciation of the late Qing; he also wrote New Story of the Stone and Sea of Regret. He died in October 1910.
Life and times
Dates 1866 - 1910