Wang Ch`ang-ling
Circa A.D. 750
This poet came from the district of Chiang-ning to the capital, where he obtained his doctor’s degree and distinguished himself as a man of letters. For some time he filled a minor post, but was eventually disgraced and exiled to the province of Hunan. When the rebellion of An Lu-shan broke out, he returned to his native place, where he was cruelly murdered by the censor Lu Ch`in-hsiao. (See Hervey Saint-Denys, ‘Poe/sies des Thang’, p. 224; Giles, ‘Biog. Dict.’ p. 8087.)