Gu Taiqing was one of the top-ranked women poets of the Qing Dynasty. She is especially known for her ci poetry and for her sequel to the novel Honglou meng. This 1877 novel is the earliest extant Chinese novel written by a woman. One scholar estimates that there are as many as 1,163 surviving poems written by Gu.
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1799 to 1877 · aged 78
Written about in
8 languages
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