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Li-kan c. 1240 - c. 1320 Chinese poet famous for his 'Book of the Bamboo' where he describes with enthusiasm a great many qualities of bamboo and other plants. Lo Kuan-chung c.1260 - c.1340 Chinese poet and first known master of a new literature in China who wrote in the vernacular style addressing the masses rather than fellow literati.
'San Kuo chih yen-i' (Romance of the three Kingsdoms) describes a period of
division in Chinese history after the collapse of the Han dynasty. This work
became for centuries the most popular book in China. 'Shui-hu chuan'
(transl. All Men are Brothers) deals with stories woven around a number of
enlightened bandits - armed and social dissenters - whose exploits were recorded
during the Sung period.
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