Lone Cloud and Wild Crane (Su Manshu)

Author: Chen Xing
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Features: This book, with substantial materials and vivid writing, narrates the life of a legendary figure in Chinese Buddhism at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Su Manshu. People called him the "Lover Monk," "Poet Monk," "Artist Monk," or "Revolutionary Monk," but no matter what, he was still a "monk." His father was a businessman from Guangdong, and his mother was Japanese. As an illegitimate child, he suffered the pain of losing his mother's love and being discriminated against from a young age. Out of desperation, he entered the monastery at the age of 13. Through personal struggle, he later became a famous writer and painter and participated in the Revolutionary Alliance, earning great respect from Sun Yat-sen.