"Yuan Mei was a revolutionary in the world of poetry."
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Zhu Ziqing, as quoted in J. D. Schmidt's Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism and Poetry of Yuan Mei, 1716–1798 (2003), p. 129
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Yuan Mei
1716 – 1798
Yuan Mei (1716 – 1798) was a Chinese poet.
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