Li Boyuan

Li Boyuan, whose real name was Li Baojia, was born in 1867 in Shandong, into a family originally from Wujin, in Jiangsu. He passed the first degree of the examinations but failed the higher ones and settled in Shanghai, where he edited and wrote for several entertainment newspapers, including the Youxi bao, and then, from 1903, an illustrated fortnightly fiction magazine. According to Lu Xun, he declined a recommendation to a special examination, which earned him the esteem of his time. He died in 1906.

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