Literary Figures

He Jingming 24/286/7349-50

Su Boheng 24/285/7310

Xu Bo 24/286/7357

The literary scene in Fujian: after Lin Hong and Gao Bing, about a hundred years passed until Shan Fu carried it forward. During the mid-Wanli period, Cao Xuequan and Xu Bo came to prominence, and Xie Zhaozhe and Deng Yuanyue joined them. Asa result, literature was revived. . . . [Xu] Bo, zi Xinggong, was a native of Minxian.His elder brother [Xu] Tong became a juren during the Wanli period. [Xu] Bo died a commoner. He was erudite and a master of clerical-style calligraphy. He accumulated books in the tens of thousands in (his library) the Aofeng Academy (Aofeng shushe).

Source: Slightly expanded from Tai-Loi Ma, “The Collecting, Writing, and Utilization of Local Histories During the Late Ming: The Unique Case of Xu Bo (1570-1642),” in The East Asian Library Journal 13, no. 1 (2008): 9-32,accessed May 26, 2013. Used here by kind permission of the author. Thanks also to Ihor Pidhainy.

 

Cheng Mingzheng bio from MS 24/286/7343-44 and Tang Bin bio from MS 24/286/7352-53 (incomplete).

Source: Ku Chieh-Kang and Goodrich, L. Carrington, “A Study of Literary Persecution During The Ming” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1938), pp. 254-311