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Vanchinbalyn Injinash

Died in 1892

Vanchinbalyn Injinash was born around 1837 in the Right Banner of the Tümed, in Inner Mongolia, on the territory of the present Chinese province of Liaoning. The son of Vanchinbal, a taiji of Genghisid lineage and banner administrator, he grew up in a literate household, versed in Mongolian, Manchu and Chinese, where his brothers translated and wrote verse. The family was ruined after a tenants' revolt in 1870. A poet and novelist, he died on 25 February 1892 in Liaoning, a refugee near Jinzhou.

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