Shen Fu
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| birth_date = 26 December 1763
| birth_place = Suzhou, Jiangsu, Qing China
| death_date = After 1825
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| notable_works = Six Records of a Floating Life
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Shen Fu ({{zh|t=沈復}}; 26 December 1763 – after 1825), courtesy name Sanbai ({{lang|zh|三白}}), was a Chinese writer of the Qing Dynasty, best known for his autobiography Six Records of a Floating Life.
Life
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Shen Fu was born in Changzhou (长洲, in Suzhou, Jiangsu province) in 1763. He was known as a great writer and wrote one of the best known descriptions of everyday life during the Qing Dynasty, Six Records of a Floating Life. In this text, which was completed in 1807, Shen Fu describes the gentle personality of his wife, Chen Yun ({{lang|zh-Hans|陈芸}}), and his love for her. He also chronicles the rejection of Chen Yun by his parents and her untimely death. Shen Fu was a government clerk, a yamen private secretary.
The work is considered a great classic of Chinese literature.{{cite journal | author=Tseng Yuho| title=Women Painters of the Ming Dynasty| journal=Artibus Asiae| year=1993| volume=53| issue=1/2| pages=249–259| doi=10.2307/3250517 | publisher=Artibus Asiae, Vol. 53, No. 1/2| jstor=3250517}}
References
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- {{cite ECCP|title=Shên Fu}}
External links
{{wikisourcelang|zh|浮生六記}}
- {{Gutenberg author | id=31132| name=Fu Shen}}
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