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Lu Xun

Chinese writer

Faxian

Chinese Buddhist monk

Xuanzang

Xuanzang

Buddhist monk

Guo Moruo

Guo Moruo

Chinese scholar

Li Zhizao

Chinese mathematician and astronomer

Xia Yan

Chinese author

Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang

Chinese author

Yan Fu

Chinese scholar

Xu Guangqi

Xu Guangqi

Chinese official

Arthur David Waley

British translator

Bian Zhilin

Chinese poet and translator

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Klabund

German writer

Robert Morrison

British missionary

Kumarajiva

Buddhist scholar

Sir Thomas Francis Wade

British diplomat

H.A. Giles

British scholar

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