Gu Yanwu

✶July 15, 1613

†February 15, 1682

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About their life

Gu Yanwu was a Chinese historian, philologist, and poet. After failing to pass the civil service examination and after surviving the upheaval of the Qing conquest of the Ming dynasty, he became an itinerant scholar, traveling across much of imperial China while collecting notes for his work.

Chinese philologist and geographer (1613–1682)

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Biography from the article Gu Yanwu on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.