Wu Jingzi

Wu Jingzi was born in 1701 in Quanjiao, in Anhui, into a well-off family of scholars whose father was an official. He obtained the first degree of the examinations without ever passing the higher ones, and squandered the family inheritance. Settled in Nanjing, he experienced a poverty that sometimes left him without heating in winter, and lived on his writings and the help of scholar friends. It was there that he began his novel, around 1740. He died in Yangzhou in 1754.

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• NovelThe Scholars儒林外史Wu Jingzi · 1750Literature