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Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101; literary name 號 Dongpo 東坡) was a preeminent scholar, writer, poet, painter, calligrapher and statesman in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Donated by Dr. Chow Tse-Tsung 周策縱 (1916-2007), a world-famous scholar on the May Fourth Movement and The Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, this annotated anthology of Su Shi's poems is the original edition revised and published by Mao Wei 茅維 (1575-1640?; courtesy name Xiaoruo 孝若), a historian, poet and dramatist of the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The preface was dated 1606 (Bingwu year of the Wanli reign 萬曆丙午), which suggests that this book was probably printed during the later years of Wanli reign 明萬曆間茅維刻本.