Liu E

Liu E was born in 1857 in Jiangsu, the son of an official, and preferred to the examinations the study of medicine, mathematics and water control; he worked on the floods of the Yellow River in Shandong. He then launched into mining and railway ventures tied to foreign interests. The first great collector of oracle bones, he published in 1903 a collection of rubbings of them. Accused in 1908 of having illegally sold public grain, he was exiled to Xinjiang and died there the following year.

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• NovelThe Travels of Lao Can老殘遊記Liu E · 1907Literature