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Also Known As	Sinitic languages • Han languages

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Chinese writer

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Chinese Buddhist monk

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Li Zhizao

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Lin Yutang

Chinese author

Yan Fu

Chinese scholar

Arthur David Waley

British translator

Bian Zhilin

Chinese poet and translator

Xu Guangqi

Chinese official

Robert Morrison

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Klabund

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H.A. Giles

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