Biography

Poets
Brief biography of Chinese poets

Wang S.C. [Big5]

Wen Tianxiang [Big5]

Stateman
Zeng Guofan [Tseng Kuo-fan] [GB]

Lin Zexu
The great stateman who fought the Opium War against the British and lost.

Writers

Hu Shih [ First Thirty Years [BIG5] [GB]
Lu Xun Biography by Timothy K. Gallaher, USC

Calligraphers
Tung Chi-Chang  [Dong QiChang]

Wang XiZhi [BIG5]

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