Famous People
In addition to the famous herbalist Li Shizhen, another Qichun scholar from ancient times was Gu Jingxing (1621–1687), a prolific author of hundreds of books, and an Imperial scholar from a long hereditary line of scholars going back several generations of the Gu family.
More-recent famous people from Qichun include:
- Wu Shu (writer and Communist revolutionary, 1902–1985);
- Hu Feng (literary theorist, 1902–1985);
- Huang Kan (Professor, newspaper founder, 1886–1935);
- Zhan Dabei (Kuomingtan/KMT leftist, 1887–1927);
- Tian Tong (1879–1937, author and Minister of Internal Affairs in the revolutionary government of Sun Yatsen);
- Dong Yuhua (leader of student movement and military commander, 1907–1939);
- Yuan Shu (government Minister, started Chinese Communist Party intelligence system, 1911–1987);
- Gao Huiyuan (born 1922, medical scientist and doctor to Premier Zhou Enlai).
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“There are times when they seem so small! And then again, although they never seem large, there is a vastness behind them, a past of indefinite complexity and marvel, an amazing power of absorbing and assimilating, which forces one to suspect some power in the race so different from our own that one cannot understand that power. And ... whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask oneself: “Well, who are the best people to live with?””
—Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904)