Liang Shiqiu

Liang Shiqiu (January 6, 1903 - November 3, 1987), whose given name was Zhihua, and whose courtesy name was Shiqiu. He also has pen names such as Zijia, Qiulang, Cheng Shu, etc. He is a famous Chinese essayist, scholar, literary critic, lexicographer, and translator. He is a native of Hang County, Zhejiang Province (now Yuhang District, Hangzhou City). He was born in Beijing and is the dean of the School of Liberal Arts of National Taiwan Normal University. He left more than 20 million words of works to the Chinese literary world in his lifetime, and his collection of essays set the highest record for the publication of modern Chinese prose works.