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Gao Chan
Late Tang poet who served as Vice Censor-in-Chief in the Qianning years, writing in a bold yet aggrieved vein; his one-scroll collection is lost, and the Complete Tang Poems keeps a scroll of his verse.
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.
Gao Chan, a late Tang poet said to come from north of the Yellow River, served as Vice Censor-in-Chief during the Qianning years; his birth and death years are unknown. His poems are bold and often tinged with a sense of talent unrewarded, and some are in the Qianjia Shi. His own one-scroll collection is lost, but the Complete Tang Poems gathers his verse in one scroll and the Supplement adds two more.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; Vice Censor-in-Chief in the Qianning years (894–898)