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Biography
Jin Tianhe(Chinese: 金天翮, Pinyin: Jīn Tiānhé, Wade Giles: Chin T'ien-ho; 1873-1947) was a Chinese poet and scholar. His original name was Maoji (懋基 màojī, mao-chi), his courtesy name (zi) was Songcen (松岑 Sōngcén, Sung-t'sen), and his hao name was Zhuangyou (壮游 Zhuàngyóu, chuang-yu). He was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu. He hated the imperial examination system when he was young, and regarded the learning of statecraft. Once he had translated the flower drop dreams of 33 years,a book propagandizing Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary stories. He taught at Suzhou Guoxuehui (苏州国学会).
Jin Tianhe is mainly famous for his poems. Qian Zhonglian considered him a great master of the poetry revolution in Jiangsu and "as important as Huang Zunxian".
He also was known as Jin Tianyu and Jin Yi.
Works
- A Flower in a Sinful Sea - Jin Tianhe wrote the original five chapters of the project. Zeng Pu completed it. Zeng Pu wrote that the five Jin Tianhe chapters "concentrate too much on the protagonist, so they at most describe an extraordinary courtesan, and along with her, a number of historical anecdotes."
