Li Ao
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Li Ao , courtesy name Xizhi , was Chinese philosopher and prose writer of the Tang Dynasty. Biography Li was born in present-day Tianshui, Gansu, but some accounts relate he was from Zhao, Hebei. After achieving the degree of Jinshi in 798, he joined the imperial bureaucracy and served in the history department at Changan.
