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The author Hu Yinglin (1551–1602) was one of the most prominent scholars of the late Ming period. His contributions cover a wide range of fields, such as historiography, literary criticism of novels and poetry, philology, and bibliography. Of the more than 1,000 writings attributed to him, only about 200 have survived, and among these the two best-known works are the Shaoshishanfang bi cong (Notes from Shaoshishan Studio) on history, philology, and literature, and this work, Shi sou (Thickets of poetic criticism), on poetry. Consisting of 20 sections, the ...