Bao Tianxiao (Pao T'ien-hsiao) 1875-1973

Originally named Bao Gongyi, he started to teach as a private tutor at the age of sixteen and obtained the first degree (xiucai) at eighteen. He used many different pen-names during the seventy years of his literary career, wrote more than thirty novels, edited many newspapers and magazines, and was also a translator and one of the founders of the 'Southern [Poetry] Society'. Born in Suzhou, he lived many years in Shanghai, then in 1947 moved to Taiwan, and later to Hong Kong, where he died.
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