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Zhang Heng
78 – 139Built the first seismoscope and mapped 2,500 stars.
China·Astronomy · Engineering · Literature
Li Bai
701 – 762Tang poetry's exuberant genius, memorised across East Asia.
China·Literature
Du Fu
712 – 770The 'poet-historian' whose verse recorded a dynasty's collapse.
China·Literature
Cao Xueqin
1715 – 1763Dream of the Red Chamber, China's supreme novel, spawned its own academic field.
China·Literature
Lu Xun
1881 – 1936Founded modern Chinese literature and diagnosed a nation in vernacular prose.
China·Literature
Mo Yan
b. 1955Hallucinatory realism of rural Shandong across China's violent century.
China·LiteratureNobel