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Mandarin · pinyin Qián Zhōng shū

Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城 Wéi chéng

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钱: qián · money, currency, coins
钟: zhōng · clock; bell
书: shū · book, letter, document; writings

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