The following is a list of
Poets
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
who wrote or write much of their
poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
in the
languages of China
There are several hundred languages in the People's Republic of China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijing dialect, Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as ''Hany ...
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Ai Qing
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Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; , Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin pinyin ''Bǎi Jūyì''; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career o ...
or Bo Juyi
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Consort Ban
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Ban Gu
Ban Gu (AD32–92) was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician best known for his part in compiling the ''Book of Han'', the second of China's 24 dynastic histories. He also wrote a number of '' fu'', a major literary form, part prose ...
(32–92 A.D.)
[Minford, John, and Joseph S. M. Lau, ''Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations'', New York: Columbia University Press and Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press , 2000]
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Bei Dao
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Bei Ling
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Bian Zhilin
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Cai Wenji
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Cai Yong
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Cao Cao
Cao Cao (; ; ; 15 March 220), courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power during the end of the Han dynasty (), ultimately taking effective control of the Han central government. He laid the foundation f ...
曹操
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Cao Pi
Cao Pi () (late 187 – 29 June 226), courtesy name Zihuan, was the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was the second son of Cao Cao, a warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty, but the ...
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Cao Zhi
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Cen Shen
Cen Shen or Cen Can (), 715–770, was a Chinese poet. He was regarded one of the great Chinese poets during the Tang dynasty. His poems were included in the Three Hundred Poems anthology.
Name
He is also called Cen Jiazhou ().
During the rei ...
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Chen Sanli
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Chen Minghua
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Chen Nianxi
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Chen Yinke
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Chen Zi'ang
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Chūgan Engetsu (
1300–
1375),
Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan)
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Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
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Dai Biaoyuan
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Dai Wangshu
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Dong Xiaowan
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Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage"
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Du Mu (803-852), Tang poet, official
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Duo Duo
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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (; 8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was an Emperor of China, emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. Throu ...
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Fei Ye 菲野
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Fenggan, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist monk. He was an associate of the famous legendary poets Han Shan and Shih Te.
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Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
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Gidō Shūshin
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Gong Zizhen
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Gu Cheng
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Gu Taiqing
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Guan Daosheng
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Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
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Hai Zi 海子, modern mystic poet
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Han Yu 韩愈
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Han Shan, "Cold Mountain"
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He Zhizhang
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Huang Tingjian 黄庭堅 (1045–1105)
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Huarui Furen
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Huang Zongxi
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Ido Reizan
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Jao Tsung-I
*Ji Xian (b. 1903), leading Taiwanese modernist
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Jia Dao 贾岛
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Jia Yi
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Jiang Yan
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Ke Yan
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Kokan Shiren
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Kong Shangren
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Leung Ping-kwan
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Li E
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Li Bai (Li Po), the "Poet Immortal"
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Li He
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Li Qiao
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Li Qingzhao
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Li Shangyin
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Li Yu (Li Houzhu)
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Liang Desheng
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Liang Huang
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Lin Huiyin
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Liu Yuxi
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Liu Zongyuan
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Lu Guimong
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Lu Ji
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Lu You
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Lu Yu
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Lu Zhaolin
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Lu Zhi
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Luo Binwang
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Ma Rong
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Mang Ke
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...
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Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
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Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
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Mi Heng
Mi Heng ( 173198), courtesy name Zhengping, was an ancient Chinese writer and musician who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. He is best known for his ''fu'' rhapsody "''Fu'' on the Parrot", which is his only work that has survived to mo ...
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Mu Dan
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Natsume Sōseki, Japan's modern composer of Chinese poetry
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Nalan Xingde
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Nie Gannu
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Ouyang Xiu
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Pan Yue
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Pan Lei
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Pei Di
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Pi Rixiu
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Qian Zhongshu
*Qin Zihao (1902–1963), leading Taiwanese modernist
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Qiu Jin
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Qiu Wei
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Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
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Quan Deyu
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Qiao Ji
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Ruan Ji
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Shangguan Wan'er (上官婉儿)
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Shen Shanbao (沈善宝)
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Shen Yue (沈约)
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Shen Quanqi (沈佺期)
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Shi Zhi"index finger" (食指，郭路生)
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Shih-Te, "Pick-Up" (拾得)
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Shih-wu, "Stonehouse" (石屋)
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Shivaza Iasyr, wrote in the
Dungan (Soviet
Hui people
The Hui people are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Islam in China, Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the Northwest China, northwestern provinces and in the Zhongy ...
) dialect (雅斯尔·十娃子 or 亚瑟尔·十娃子)
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Shu Ting (舒婷)
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Sima Xiangru
Sima Xiangru ( , c. 179117BC) was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician who lived during the Han dynasty#Western Han, Western Han dynasty. Sima is a significant figure in the history of Classical Chinese poetry, and is generally regarded as ...
(司马相如)
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Song Yu (宋玉)
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Su Shi
Su Shi ( zh, t=, s=苏轼, p=Sū Shì; 8 January 1037 – 24 August 1101), courtesy name Zizhan (), art name Dongpo (), was a Chinese poet, essayist, calligrapher, painter, scholar-official, literatus, artist, pharmacologist, and gastronome wh ...
(苏轼)
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Su Xiaoxiao (苏小小)
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Shang Ting (商挺)
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*Tao Qian, also known as
Tao Yuanming
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Wang Anshi
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Wang Bo
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Wang Can
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Wang Changling
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Wang Rong
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Wang Wei (Tang dynasty), the "Poet Buddha"
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Wang Wei (17th-century poet)
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Wang Yi-Ch'eng, poet
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Wang Yun (Qing dynasty)
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Wei Yuan
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Wei Zhuang
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Wen Tingyun
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Wen Yiduo
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Wu Cheng'en, Ming novelist, poet
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Wu Jiaji
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Wu Zao
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Xi Chuan
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Xi Kang (or
Ji Kang)
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Xi Xi
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Xiao Gang (Emperor Jianwen of Liang)
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Xie Lingyun
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Xie Tiao
Xie Tiao (; style name: Xuan Hui (玄辉)) (464–499) was the leading Southern Qi Chinese poetry, poet of the Yongming poetry, Yongming reign. He was known as "Xiao Xie" (that is, "Little Xie") in comparison with Xie Lingyun.
Life
His family h ...
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Xin Qiji
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Lady Xu Mu
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Xu Zhi Mo 1895–1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
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Xu Zihua
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Xue Tao 768-831
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Yang Jiong
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Yang Lian
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Yang Wanli
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Yang Xiong
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Yao Shouzhong
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Yao Sui
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John Yau
John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, ficti ...
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Chia-ying Yeh
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Yu Xin
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Yu Xiuhua
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Yu Xuanji
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Yuan Hongdao
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Yuan Zhen
Yuan Zhen (; 779 – September 2, 831), courtesy name Weizhi (), was a Chinese novelist, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. In prose literature, Yuan Zhen is particularly known for his work '' Yingying's Biography'', which has oft ...
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Yuan Zhongdao
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Zhai Yongming
Zhai Yongming (born 1955) is a Chinese List of Chinese language poets, poet, essayist and screenwriter from Chengdu, in the southwest Sichuan Province. Born during the Maoist era, Zhai was forcibly sent away for two years to do manual labor in t ...
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Zhang Heng
Zhang Heng (; AD 78–139), formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized Chang Heng, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived during the Han dynasty#Eastern Han (25–220 AD), Eastern Han dynasty. Educated in the capital citi ...
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Zhang Hua
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Zhang Ji (poet from Hubei)
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Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)
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Zhang Jiuling
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Zhang Xu
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Zhang Yaotiao (Tang Geji poet)
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Zhao Luanluan (Yuan dynasty poet)
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Zhao Luorui
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Zhang Zhidong
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Zheng Min
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Zheng Yunduan
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Zhu Shuzhen
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Zhuo Wenjun
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Zuo Si
See also
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Chinese poetry
Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, and a part of the Chinese literature. While this last term comprises Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese, and other historical and vernac ...
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Song Dynasty poets (list)
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List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
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Tang Dynasty poets (list)
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List of Chinese authors
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List of Chinese women writers
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List of Hong Kong poets
Notes
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