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Ou-yang Hsiu

A Song dynasty scholar and official cited in the text.

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Also known as 歐陽修 Ou - yang Hsiu

First appearance: The Commentators

Ou-yang Hsiu shows up with force in The Commentators. The page is where that presence becomes real.

A scholar who wrote a laudatory preface for Mei Yao-chʽên's commentary and remarked on the long roll of Sun Tzǔ's commentators.
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