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Chinese writer from Lou County, Songjiang Prefecture,

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As a child he went with his father to live in Beijing."Chinese Literature from 1841 to 1937." The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. Ed.

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and Stephen Owen. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 439. Print. He failed at the imperial examinations many times, even though he had a reputation as a prodigy in his childhood, and eventually wrote for the newspaper ''

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'' in Shanghai. In 1892, he started what can be considered China's first for-profit literary magazine, the ''Wonderbook of Shanghai'' (海上奇書; ''Haishang qishu''), which lasted eight months, and in which he published his novel ''Shanghai Hua'' in instalments. The novel has been widely acclaimed as a classic (particularly by

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Eileen Chang Eileen Chang ( zh, t=張愛玲, s=张爱玲, first=t, w=Chang1 Ai4-ling2, p=Zhāng Àilíng；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born A ...

) but is little read today, likely due to its being written entirely in

Wu Chinese The Wu languages (; Wu romanization and IPA: ''wu6 gniu6'' [] ( Shanghainese), ''ng2 gniu6'' [] (Suzhounese), Mandarin pinyin and IPA: ''Wúyǔ'' []) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Provin ...

, unintelligible to Mandarin speakers. It was translated into Mandarin and English by Eileen Chang. After Chang's death in 1995, the translation was discovered among her papers and published in English as '' The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai'' in 2005 after revision by Eva Hung. Not long after publication of the novel, in 1894, Han Bangqing died, age 38.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Han, Bangqing 1856 births 1894 deaths Writers from Shanghai Qing dynasty novelists Shanghainese 19th-century Chinese novelists