Li Qingzhao (Li Ch'ing-Chao)
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Author
Li Qingzhao (Li Ch'ing-Chao)
Location
China
Dates
1084 - ca. 1155
Biography
A Buddhist of northern China (now Shandong) with literary parents, she wrote lyric poetry and, with her husband, collected antiquities, during the Song dynasty. During the Jin (Tartar) invasion, she and her husband lost most of their possessions. A few years later, her husband died. She finished a manual of antiquities which her husband had begun, adding a memoir of her life and poetry to it. Most of her poems -- 13 volumes during her lifetime -- were destroyed or lost.
Genres
Poetry
