Liu Xiang (author)
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Liú Xiàng (Chinese: 劉向/刘向; Wade-Giles: Liu Hsiang, 77-6 BCE) was a famous Confucianist scholar of the Former Han Dynasty. He was born in Xuzhou and related to Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty. His son, Liu Xin, developed the "Triple Concordance" astronomical system.
Liu Xiang compiled the first catalogue of the imperial library and was the first editor of the Shan Hai Jing. He was a prodigious collector of old stories, which he compiled into the Zhan Guo Ce, the Xinxu (新序 "New Prefaces"), the Shuoyuan (說苑 "Garden of Stories"), the Lienü zhuan (列女傳 "Biographies of Exemplary Women"), and probably the Liexian Zhuan.
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