Liu E (English spelling)

Japanese: 劉鶚 - りゅうがく（英語表記）Liu E

Born: 1857
[Died] Xuantong 1 (1909)
A Chinese novelist in the late Qing Dynasty. Born in Dantu (Zhenjiang City), Jiangsu Province. His name was Tieyun. He initially tried to become a doctor and then worked in business, but failed. He then set his sights on politics, becoming close to important figures and making a great contribution to flood control when the Yellow River burst its banks in 1888. He then tried to introduce foreign capital for railway construction and mine development, but was accused of buying government rice from the Russian army and selling it to refugees during the Boxer Rebellion. He was exiled to Xinjiang, where he died. He wrote a colloquial novel, Lao Can Travels, about the incidents a man named Lao Can encounters while traveling around Shandong, and he sharply pointed out the crimes of government officials mismanaging the country. He was also known for collecting oracle bones, and wrote Tieyun Cang Turtle (1903), which marked the beginning of research into oracle bone script. (→Oracle bone studies)

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Japanese:

[生]咸豊7(1857)
[没]宣統1(1909)
中国，清末の小説家。江蘇省丹徒 (鎮江市) の人。字，鉄雲。初め医者となったり，商業に従事したりしたが失敗，やがて政治に志を立て，要路の人物に近づき，光緒 14 (1888) 年黄河が決壊したときその治水に功績をあげた。その後，鉄道敷設，鉱山開発のための外資導入をはかったりしたが，義和団事変に際してロシア軍から政府米を買い難民に売ったのが罪に問われ，新疆に流され，そこで没した。老残という名の人物が山東の各地を遍歴して出会う事件を書いた口語小説『老残遊記』があり，官吏が国を誤る罪を鋭く指摘した。また，甲骨の収集で知られ，『鉄雲蔵亀』 (1903) の著があり，甲骨文研究の端緒をつくった。 (→甲骨学 ) 　

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