Wu Weiye
Wu Weiye(traditional Chinese:Ngô vĩ nghiệp;simplified Chinese:Ngô vĩ nghiệp;pinyin:Wú Wěiyè;1609–1671) was a Chinese poet and politician. He was a poet inClassical Chinese poetry.He lived during the difficult times of theMing-Qing transition.Along withGong DingziandQian Qianyi,Wu Weiye was famous as one of theThree Masters of Jiangdong.[1]Wu Weiye was known for writing in theci(song lyric) poetryform as well as writing about current events in both the regularciand the seven-syllable long form, thegexing.[2]
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[edit]- Zhang, Hongsheng (2002). "Gong Dingzi and the Courtesan Gu Mei: Their Romance and the Revival of the Song Lyric in the Ming-Qing Transition", inHsiang Lectures on Chinese Poetry, Volume 2,Grace S. Fong, editor. (Montreal: Center for East Asian Research, McGill University). Jonathan Chaves (1986). The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry. (New York: Columbia University Press).
- Hummel, Arthur W. Sr.,ed. (1943)..Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period.United States Government Printing Office.
