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Gong Zizhen
Foremost Enlightenment Thinker, Reformer, and Master Poet of the Late Qing
Mural guide
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 Gong Seren · Gong Ding'an · Ding'an · Master Ding'an
Visionary Qing Dynasty philosopher, classical scholar, and poet. His Jihai Zashi poems boldly warned of dynastic ossification and sounded the dawn of modern Chinese reform.
Life and times
Dates 1792 - 1841
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