Wu Jianren

Wu Woyao, who signed Wu Jianren and “the man of Foshan”, was born in 1866, in Beijing according to a course at the University of British Columbia, into a family originating from Guangdong. Coming to Shanghai young, he was a copyist at the Jiangnan arsenal, then became a journalist in the 1890s and directed several papers. He published his first novels in 1903 in the review of Liang Qichao, and around 1906 was the main writer of a monthly of fiction. He died in 1910, poor according to the rumour reported by a Chinese study.

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• NovelVignettes from the Late Ch'ing: Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed over Two Decades二十年目睹之怪現狀Wu Jianren · 1903Literature