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Yi Bingshou [I Ping-shou; zi Zisi; hao Moqing]
(b Ninghua, Fujian Province, 1754; d Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, 1815). Chinese calligrapher, minor painter and seal-carver. He passed the civil service examination to become a jinshi in 1789. He then had a series of official posts, serving on the Board of Justice, as an examiner and as a prefectural magistrate first at Huizhou in Guangdong Province and then at Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province. Yi is generally recognized as a leading figure in the stele studies (beixue) movement in calligraphy (see CHINA, §IV, 2(vii)) and was designated one of the Four Great Calligraphers of the Qing period (1644–1911) by the political reformer and scholar of epigraphy Kang Youwei. He occasionally painted landscapes, few of which are extant. He was also well versed in law and philology.
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