Asian Art

Gui Youguang

Gui Youguang (simplified Chinese: 归有光; traditional Chinese: 歸有光; pinyin: Guī Yǒuguāng; 1507–1571) was a Chinese writer of Ming Dynasty. His courtesy name was Xifu (熙甫) and his art name was Zhenchuan (震川), and he was also known as Xiangji Sheng (項脊生, literally Scholar of Xiangji). His prose writings were highly praised. People of his time regarded him as a modern-day Ouyang Xiu, an important writer of the earlier Song Dynasty, and later generations praised his works as "the best prose of the Ming Dynasty". He was one of the early masters of the xiaopin.

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• ▸Eurasian nomads
• ▸History of British newspapers
• ▸History of the Jews in Naples

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