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Name
Wu Youru
Traditional Chinese
吳友如
Simplified Chinese
吴友如
Other Names
吳嘉猷 (Given), 吳猷, 友如
Born / Began
1841-5年
Died / Ended
1893年?
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One the most prolific “newspainters” of the late-Qing who created illustrations for the Dianshizhai Pictorial 點石齋畫報, published by the British entrepreneur Ernest Major 美查 in Shanghai from May 8, 1884, to August 16, 1898.1

  1. Wagner, Rudolf G., ‘Joining the Global Imaginaire’, in Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910 (SUNY Press, 2012), p. 131 [↩]
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