Zhou Lianggong
Zhou Lianggong (Template:Zh, 1612–1672) was a Chinese poet, calligrapher, essayist, and art historian who was born in Kaifeng and had long family ties to Nanjing.
He passed his Jinshi degree in 1640, becoming a magistrate in Weixian, Shandong where he defended the cityScript error: No such module "Unsubst". from attack from Manchu Qing army led by Abatai. He escaped to Beijing, but fled to Nanjing after the city was attacked by Li Zicheng's rebel forces. After Prince Dodo took Nanjing for the Qing dynasty, Zhou began serving the Qing.[1] He would however take his place in the new Manchu regime in a variety of official capacities. In 1655, he was accused of official corruption by the Governor General of Fujian and Zhejiang Tongtai and finally faced imprisonment in Fuzhou, where he edited his poetry collection Laigutang Ji (Script error: No such module "Lang".). He was in jail when Koxinga's forces attacked, and he was temporarily released to lead the defense.[2] Zhou was eventually granted amnesty in 1661, Zhou again served as an official, acting as grain intendant of Nanjing.[2] In December 1669 he hosts a party, and over twenty Nanjing-affiliated painters and poets gathered there.[3] He was accused again of corruption in 1669. His sentence was hanging, but he was again given amnesty and released during the general amnesty of 1670.
Late in life, he destroyed many of his writings, but not those of his many associates, whose work he guided and edited. Among his surviving works is a collection of jottings known as Yinshuwu Shuying (Script error: No such module "Lang".), a work he compiled in prison, and a remarkable collection of letters, Chidu Xinchao (Script error: No such module "Lang".). The collection of letters was a democratic undertaking. Many of the collected letters are by those who aided in the compilation. In a real sense, Zhou was chief editor. In the immediate years after his death, Zhou was considered a writer of the first rank. By the 18th century, he and other writers who had served two dynasties were then considered of a lower level. In the late 18th century, his works were considered anathema by the ruling monarch.
References
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- Kim, Hongnam., The Life of a Patron, China Institute, 1996.
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- Carpenter, Bruce E., ‘A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Anthology of Letters’, Tezukayama University Review (Tezukayama daigaku ronshū), Nara, Japan, 1990, no. 69, pp. 176–190).
- Carpenter, Bruce E., "Chou Liang-kung’s Shadows of Reading ", Tezukayama University Review (Tezukayama daigaku ronshū ), Nara, Japan, 1988, no. 62, pp. 35–43.
- Wu, Zhengming, "Zhou Lianggong"Script error: No such module "Unsubst".. Encyclopedia of China, 1st ed.
External links
- Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717), an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Zhou Lianggong (see index)