Gu Hongming

Chinese writer.

Born July 18th, 1857 in Penang. [ref]

Died April 30th, 1928 at 70 years old in Beijing. [ref]

Occupations
civil servant, essayist, lecturer, politician, translator, university teacher, writer
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You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. Philip Pullman