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Lady Li
before 923 - after 934
artist, painter - credited with inventing brush painting of bamboo

Lady Li of Shu (Sichuan) is credited with beginning an artistic tradition by tracing on her paper window with a brush the shadows cast by the moon and bamboo.

The Taoist writer Chuang-tzu also uses the name Lady Li for a parable about clinging to life in the face of death.

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  • Kang-i Chang. Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. 1999. (mentions Lady Li briefly)
  • Marsha Weidner. Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting. 1990.

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About Lady Li

  • Categories: painter, artist
  • Places: China, Shu, Sichuan
  • Period: 10th century

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