Yang Borun (, 1837–1911), born Yang Peifu (杨佩夫), was a well-known
Chinese poet
The following is a list of Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China.
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*Ai Qing
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*Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
*Consort Ban
*Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.)Minford, John, and Joseph S. M. Lau, ''Classical Chinese Lite ...
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calligrapher, and
painter
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of the
Shanghai School
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Etymology
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Yang was born to a scholarly family in
Jiaxing, Zhejiang
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, he arrived in Shanghai in the early 1860s. Yang sold his paintings, mostly
landscapes, to support the family. Some of them are in the collections of museums in Shanghai,
Tokyo
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,
Hong Kong
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,
Taiwan
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, and
Cleveland
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. A book of Yang's poetry is held at the Harvard University Yenching Library. Samples of his calligraphy have been published in
Japan
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References
*Anita Chung (ed.), ''Chinese Painting from the Shanghai Museum, 1851-1911.'' Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland, 2000.
*Yang Borun, ''Nanhu caotang shiji (Collected Poems from the Thatched Hut of the South lake)'', Shanghai, 1882
*''Ka Shoki Yo Hakujun'', Tokyo: Nigensha, 2001
See also
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Chinese art
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Chinese painting
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Qing dynasty calligraphers
Qing dynasty painters
Qing dynasty poets
1837 births
1911 deaths
Painters from Zhejiang
Writers from Jiaxing
Poets from Zhejiang
19th-century Chinese painters
20th-century Chinese painters
Artists from Jiaxing
19th-century Chinese calligraphers