Fu Xuan

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Fu Xuan (pinyin; 傅玄; Fu Hsüan, Wade-Giles; 217-278) was a Chinese poet of the Western Jin Dynasty. An impoverished orphan, he became rich due to his literary fame. His poems, primarily in the yuefu style, are noted for their powerful and empathetic portrayals of women. Translations of several of his sixty-odd extant poems can be found in the book New Songs from a Jade Terrace by Anne Birrell (ISBN 0048950262).