• Figure 1. The late Ming artist Chen Hongshou’s 陳洪綬 (1598–1652) delineation of the bandit hero Zhang Shun, from his collection ‘The Water Margin’ Playing Titles 水滸葉子 (c.a. 1630). The inscription reads: “White Streak in the Wave Zhang Shun, born in the Xunyang River, died in the Qiantang River” 浪裏白跳張順,生潯陽死錢塘. See Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬, Shuihu yezi 水滸葉子 (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1979).

Chen Hongshou’s Zhang Shun

From Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China by Yuanfei Wang

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