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Li Bai: The "Poet Immortal" Who Wrote the Moon into Verse
How wild was Li Bai? Why does everyone know Jing Ye Si? How to best enjoy his poems.
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Qu Yuan: Dragon Boat Festival and the Eternal Poet
Who was Qu Yuan? Why is Dragon Boat Festival tied to him? A poet love for his homeland.
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Yuan Longping: The Father of Hybrid Rice Who Fed China
A seed that changed the world - the humble, stubborn academic who lived in the rice paddies.
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Du Fu: The Poet Who Wrote a Nation Suffering
The saint of poetry, Du Fu - Li Bai equal, homeless yet heart-bound to the people.
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Li Bai: The Poet Whose Mouth Held Half of High Tang
The immortal poet Li Bai - sword at the hip, a hundred poems a drink, the freest spirit in Chinese letters.
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Confucius: The Thinker Who Shaped East Asia for 2,000 Years
Ren, li and teaching without discrimination - how Confucius shaped the Chinese mind.
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Tu Youyou: How One Artemisia Plant Changed the World
A malaria cure found in a 2,000-year-old recipe - and China's first Nobel laureate in medicine.
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Lu Xun: A Literary Giant Who Fought with His Pen
"Fierce-browed I defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed I serve the children" - the father of modern Chinese literature.
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Su Shi: A Man Who Turned Suffering into Poetry
Exiled three times, he wrote "through mist and rain I live my life at ease" - the most beloved literatus in China.
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Li Bai: The Immortal Poet and His Moon
"I raise my head and watch the moon, lower it and think of home" — the poem every Chinese child knows, and the legend behind it.
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Confucius: The Teacher Who Shaped China for Two Millennia
From "do not do to others what you would not have done to you" to Confucius Institutes worldwide — meet the architect of Chinese culture.
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Wang Xizhi: How the "Sage of Calligraphy" Was Forged
He was a great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin dynasty, honored as the "Sage of Calligraphy." His "Lanting Xu" is called "the best running script under heaven."
