Zhong Xing

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Zhong Xing (鐘惺/钟惺，1574-1625) was a late-Ming scholar. "He never rose beyond a minor official position but was a best-selling critic of poetry."{{cite book|author=Kai-wing Chow|title=Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-_l3tDB47AC&pg=PA131|year=2004|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-3368-7|page=131}} He became the founder of the Jingling school of poetry, which valued originality over imitation.{{cite book|author=Daria Berg|editor=Daria Berg|title=Reading China: fiction, history and the dynamics of discourse : essays in honour of professor Glen Dudbridge|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPwu3MsCebcC&pg=PA246|year=2007|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-15483-4|page=246|chapter=Female Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial China}}

From 1614 Zhong collaborated with his friend Tan Yuanchun on a bestselling poetry anthology Gu shigui [Models of ancient poetry], published around 1617 in three colours, with Zhong's and Tan's comments differentiated by colour. He also published notes on history (Shihuai, The memory of history) in seventeen juan, and edited a 1620 anthology of Su Shi's writings. He is credited with the editorship of the Mingyuan shigui （名媛詩歸/名媛诗归）[Poetic retrospective of famous ladies], c. 1626, a comprehensive anthology of women writers.