Qu You

Qu You (Chinese: 瞿佑; pinyin: Qú Yòu; Wade–Giles: Ch'ü Yu, 1341–1427), courtesy name Zongji (宗吉) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai (存齋, "Reading Studio of Existence"), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing dynasty.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Qu (瞿).

Born in Qiantang (錢塘, now Hangzhou), Qu You was famous as an adolescent poet. He became a teacher-official (教諭) in Lin'an (臨安), then promoted to be the Head of Secretary (長史) of the Zhou (周) Kingdom. But at the height of his career, he was jailed for ten years.

After his release in 1425, he worked as a tutor in the household of Lord of Ying State (英國公). He was reinstated as an official, but he resigned shortly, never returning to the world of politics again, in action. His works, though entertaining, have undertone that expresses concerns and discontent that he had with politics of the Ming Empire.

Works
gollark: I could do it with enough brackets.
gollark: Not even humans actually *optimise* for survival or spreading genes or whatever. We have planning capabilities, but do things based on a weird set of instincts and desires which sort of approximate that.
gollark: There are a bunch with moderately okay Snapdragon chips.
gollark: Hello, boi.
gollark: I can make you a classifier which will say if something is a painting or some other thing.
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