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1500 - Born with literary talent
1515-1582
- around these years, he took the examinations required for government service but failed in such
- major work includes Xiyu Ji, published in 1592 and translated as Monkey in 1942; it was an allegorical novel with story based on the 7th-century pilgrimage by the Buddhist monk Xuanzang
1582 - died with little official posts
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