biography
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Lo Guangzhong
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also spelled Lo Kuan-chung
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pronunciation:
[loe gwangjong]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1330–1400)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hangzhou, E China. He is probably associated with two of the four great Ming-period novels. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a fictionalized vividly vernacular narrative of the 2nd–3rd-c struggles between three rival states after the Han period. The text was not published until 1522, and quickly became one of the most popular items of Chinese fiction in East Asia. The Water Margin, or Men of the Marshes, recounts the (partly true) adventures of 108 outlaws who in the 1120s executed savage retaliation against authority for wrongs experienced by themselves and others, dying one by one in the process. The book was banned by Qing rulers. A translation by Pearl Buck, All Men Are Brothers, was published in 1933. |
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