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Su Shi, courtesy name Zizhan (子瞻), art name Dongpo (東坡), was a Chinese poet, literatus, painter, calligrapher, and scholar-official of the Song dynasty. Born into a prominent literary family in Meishan, Sichuan, he was the son of Su Xun and brother of Su Zhe. Despite ambitions for high office, he became a repeated target in factional struggles between reformers and conservatives at the court, and…
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culture · Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101) · poet · writer · painter · pharmacist · calligrapher · historian · scholar · politician · musician · essayist · also Su Shi, Su Dongpo, Zizhan, Su Shih, Dongpo jushi, Su shi
Born 8 January 1037 · Died 24 August 1101 · Q36020
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s reforms, especially the government monopoly imposed on the salt industry. The dominance of the reformist faction at court allowed the New Policy Group greater ability to have Su Shi exiled for political crimes. The claim was that Su Shi was criticizing the emperor, when in fact his poetry was aimed at criticizing Wang
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
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“s reforms, especially the government monopoly imposed on the salt industry. The dominance of the reformist faction at court allowed the New Policy Group greater ability to have Su Shi exiled for political crimes. The claim was that Su Shi was criticizing the emperor, when in fact his poetry was aimed at criticizing Wang”
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
Died 1101-08-24.
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“What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.”
“Life is like a spring dream which vanishes without a trace.”
Born 1037-01-08.
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