Gong Zizhen

Gong Zizhen

▪ Chinese author
Wade-Giles romanization  Kung Tzu-chen , also called  Gong Ding'an , courtesy name (zi)  Seren , literary name (hao)  Ding'an 
born August 22, 1792, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China
died September 26, 1841, Danyang, Jiangsu province

      reform-minded Chinese writer and poet whose works both foreshadowed and influenced the modernization movements of the late Qing dynasty.

      Born into an eminent family of scholars and officials, Gong passed the state examinations and succeeded to a series of metropolitan posts in the Qing administration. Concern over the Qing failure to deal with internal problems and Western pressures led Gong in 1830 to join other progressives in founding a literary club to agitate for reform. Unlike most of his political companions, Gong stressed that the greatest danger to Qing society was not Western pressure but the loss of the spiritual basis of society. Although his many essays on reform issues had great impact on later reform intellectuals such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, they were ill-received in the conservative Qing councils of the time. Thus, Gong retired in disillusionment to a life of private letters in 1839.

      Famed chiefly as a prose stylist, Gong was also a master of jueju (chüeh-chü) (traditional quatrain) and lyrical ci poetry and published several verse collections, most notably his Jihai zashi (1839; “Miscellaneous Verse”).

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