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Liu Xiang

A drawing of an ancient Chinese man with long beard in Han costume
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Liu Xiang (77–6 BCE) was head of the Han imperial library in the capital of Chang’an and credited with some poems in Chu Ci (“Songs of the South”).

Poems by Liu Xiang
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    Song of the Boatman from Yueh

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