• Wáng Wēi (Chinese: 王微; 1597–1647), also known by her courtesy name Xiūwēi (Chinese: 修微), was a Chinese Gējì, poet, and traveller during the late Ming...
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  • statesman Wang Wei (Gējì) (1597–1647), Ming dynasty female singer and poet Wang Wei (SF Express) (born 1971), founder of SF Express Gary Wang (Chinese...
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  • Wei Zifu (simplified Chinese: 卫子夫; traditional Chinese: 衛子夫; pinyin: Weì Zǐfū; Wade–Giles: Wei Tzu-fu; died 9 September 91 BC), posthumously known as Empress...
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  • survived. Chen Yuanyuan Chinese poetry Eight Beauties of Qinhuai Liu Rushi Wang Wei (Gējì) Xu, Sufeng. "Lotus flowers rising from the dark mud : late Ming courtesans...
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  • 1564–1650), Gējì, painter, poet and Go player Yang Meizi (1162-1233), Southern Song Empress, calligrapher, painter Yang Wan (c.1602-1644), Gējì poet and...
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    Li Xiangjun (category Ming dynasty Gējìs)
    Li Xiangjun (Chinese: 李香君; 1624–1654) was a Gējì during the Ming dynasty. Her life was dramatised in the play The Peach Blossom Fan. Li Xiangjun's romance...
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  • Yuanming Wang Anshi Wang Bo Wang Can Wang Changling Wang Rong Wang Wei (Tang dynasty), the "Poet Buddha" Wang Wei (17th-century poet) Wang Yi-Ch'eng...
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    Ming Dynasty, some gentry dated well-educated gejis outside of marriage and the concubine system. Gējì culture of the Ming Dynasty reshaped the purely...
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    Chen Yuanyuan (category Ming dynasty Gējìs)
    Wai-yee. "Women as Emblems of Dynastic Fall in Qing Literature". In Wang, David Der-wei; Wei, Shang (eds.). Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the...
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    Li Bai and Du Fu, belonged to this age, contributing with poets such as Wang Wei to the monumental Three Hundred Tang Poems. Many famous painters such as...
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  • Wang Anyi (born 1954) fiction writer Wang Qinghui (1264–1288) poet Wang Wei (1597–1647) poet Wang Xufeng (born 1955) writer on tea and novelist Wang Yun...
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  • the way, they meet Li Kui, who decapitates Zhu Biao. Li Shishi (李師師) is a Gējì living in the capital. Emperor Huizong is one of her regular clients. She...
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  • Ma Shouzhen (category Chinese Gējìs)
    poetry. Other poets and intellectuals she befriended include Zhou Tianqiu, Xu Wei, and Xue Mingyi. Most wrote poems inspired by her or for her, describing...
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    Eight Beauties of Qinhuai (category Ming dynasty Gējìs)
    1505–1566), Zhou Tianqiu (周天球; 1514–1595), Xu Wei (1521–1593), Xue Mingyi (薛明益; late 16th century), and Wang Zhideng (王穉登; 1535–1612). The poets would write...
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    The Peach Blossom Fan (category Chinese Gējìs)
    one of the then known dynasties, the Ming Dynasty. Using Hou Fangyu and a Gējì by the play name Li Xiangjun, it elaborates in love the death of the Ming...
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    Zhao Feiyan (category Chinese Gējìs)
    Dowager Wang seized power back from Emperor Ai's favorite Dong Xian and made her nephew Wang Mang regent to the succeeding Emperor Ping. Wang Mang, who...
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  • Gu Hengbo (category Ming dynasty Gējìs)
    Xu Shanchi (徐善持) and Xu Zhizhu (徐智珠) after her marriage - was a Chinese Gējì, poet and painter. She received the title "Lady" (furen) from the early Qing...
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  • Qin Chouchi Jin shu Xie Xuan Chuan: 晉書謝玄傳: Wen feng sheng he lei, jie yi wei wang shi [聞風聲鶴唳,皆以為王師] "汉典". Schuessler, Axel. 2007. An Etymological Dictionary...
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    Diaochan (category Chinese Gējìs)
    triggering the events that would lead to the formation of the Three Kingdoms: Cao Wei, Eastern Wu, and Shu Han. Chinese historical records indicate that Lü Bu...
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    Lady Li (category Chinese Gējìs)
    dynasty concubine of Emperor Wu. Civil unrest broke out between her family and Wei Zifu's family. Moreover, her siblings defected to the Xiongnu and became...
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  • Empress Dowager Bian (category Cao Wei empresses dowager)
    corresponds to 9 July 230 in the Gregorian calendar. According to the Book of Wei by Wang Chen et al., Lady Bian was born on the jisi day of the 12th month of...
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  • Guo Nüwang (category Cao Wei empresses dowager)
    Sanguozhi ([青龍三年二月]丁巳,皇太后崩。) Sanguozhi vol. 3. According to the Book of Wei by Wang Chen et al., Lady Guo was born on the yimao day of the 3rd month of the...
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    Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2020. Su, Chi-Wei; Khan, Khalid; Hao, Lin-Na; Tao, Ran; Peculea, Adelina Dumitrescu (1 January...
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    and emotions. Many of these well-known writers were also Gējìs, including Liu Rushi, Wang Wei, Dong Xiaowan and Gu Mei. The area of Ming poetry is one...
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    Liu Rushi (category Ming dynasty Gējìs)
    appreciated Liu Rushi's talent. The talented courtesan and poet Wang Wei was also Wang Ruqian's good friend. She was friends with fellow courtesan Chen...
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  • Du Zhu (category Chinese Gējìs)
    empress. Du Zhu was initially a family courtesan from a general of Jin, Wang Jun. After she was captured by the army of Later Zhao, she was given by Shi...
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    Li Yin (category Chinese Gējìs)
    Later, she became a Geji performer to make extra money, with Huang Zongxi comparing Li to her more famous contemporaries Wang Wei and Liu Rushi. She studied...
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  • Li Shishi (category Chinese Gējìs)
    an ancient Chinese musical piece based on a poem by Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei (699-759). In another tone and style, in the previous dynasty. The "previous...
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    the music and dance murals in Han Xiu's tomb in the Tang Dynasty". Lin, Wei-Cheng. "Performing in the afterlife: performance and performativity of Tang...
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  • Italian film director, jumped from a balcony. Liu Rushi (1664), Chinese Gējì,poet,artist,Ming loyalist,hanging Willie Llewelyn (1893), Welsh cricketer...
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