Yang Borun

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Yang Borun (1837-1911) was a well-known Chinese poet, calligrapher, and painter of the Shanghai school.

Born Yang Peifu to a scholarly family in Jiaxing, he arrived in Shanghai in the early 1860s. Yang sold his paintings, mostly landscapes, to support the family. Some of them are in the collections of museums in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Cleveland. A book of Yang's poetry is held at the Harvard University Yenching Library. Samples of his calligraphy have been published in Japan.

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Anita Chung (ed.), Chinese Painting from the Shanghai Museum, 1851-1911. Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland, 2000.

Yang Borun, Nanhu caotang shiji (Collected Poems from the Thatched Hut of the South lake), Shanghai, 1882

Ka Shoki Yo Hakujun, Tokyo: Nigensha, 2001

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