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Rh In the poetic style known as tz'ǔ Ku-t'ai-ch'ing ranked with the best masters, such as and. Her poems in this mode are simple and moving, and yet show a characteristic rhythm and a rich choice of words. The collection of her verse in both the ruled and the tz'ŭ forms is entitled 天游閣集 T'ien-yu ko chi, 7(?) chüan. In 1910 Mao Kuang-shêng (see under ) printed it in 5 chüan (in reality only 4 of the original 7 chüan) from an incomplete manuscript, but without the poems in the tz'ŭ form. In 1914 he printed a collection of her tz'ŭ, under the title 東海漁歌 Tung-hai yü-ko, 4 chüan (in reality only the first, third, and fourth of the original 6[?] chüan). The Japanese scholar, Suzuki Torao 鈴木虎雄, records that he saw a manuscript of the T'ien-yu ko chi containing 7 chüan of ruled verse and 6 of tz'ŭ. The alleged missing chüan 2 of the Tung-hai yü-ko appears in the magazine 詞學季刊 Tz'ŭ-hsüeh chi-k'an (vol. I, no. 2, Aug. 1933). The same Journal (p. 26) states, on the authority of a descendant of I-hui, named Hêng-hsü 恆煦, that Ku-t'ai-ch'ing was the great-granddaughter of and was reared by a Ku family belonging to a company of Chinese Bannermen controlled by the family of I-hui. The aforementioned Journal (vol. II, nos. 1 and 2) prints the poems of I-hui in irregular meter (tz'ŭ) under the title, 寫春精舍詞 Hsieh-ch'un ching-shê tz'ŭ. The poems are said to be based on I-hui's original manuscript. A later issue of the Journal (vol. II, no. 4) contains what is believed to be the portrait of Ku-t'ai-ch'ing.

An unfounded rumor to the effect that was in love with Ku-t'ai-ch'ing possibly had its origin in the reference to a lilac bush mentioned in the poems of both these writers. The lilac in question grew on the banks of the pond known as T'ai-p'ing hu 太平湖 in the southwest corner of the Tartar City, Peking, where the palace of I-hui was located. This palace later came into the possession of and thereafter was called Ch'i-yeh-fu (see under ). It was the birthplace of Emperor Tê-tsung (see under ) and was later converted into classrooms for the Min-kuo University (民國大學).

[1/171/10b; 蘇雪林, 清代女詞人顧太清 in 婦女雜誌 Fu-nü tsa-chih, vol. 17, no. 7 (July, 1931); Ibid., 清代男女兩大詞人戀史的研究 in 文哲季刊 (Quarterly Journal of Liberal Arts, Wuhan University), vol. 1, no. 4 (Jan., 1931); Suzuki Torao, 支那文學研究 Shina bungagu kenkyū, pp. 248–66.]

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 I-li-pu (Elipoo) 伊里布, d. Mar. 5, 1843, age 72 or 73 (sui), official, diplomat, was a member of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner. He was an Imperial Clansman, a descendant of Gunggadai 鞏阿岱 (d. 1652) who was a son of Bayara (see under ). Gunggadai was executed for being a henchman of, and his descendants were excluded from the Imperial Family. Only in 1799 were they restored to the Imperial Clan, and then were made to wear red girdles to distinguish them from the regular Imperial Clansmen who wore yellow. I-li-pu became a chin-shih in 1801, but waited four years before he received appointment as archivist of the Imperial Academy. In 1812 he was sent to Yunnan and in the following year was appointed a second class sub-prefect of Yunnanfu. Promoted to be department magistrate of T'ang-yüeh, he distinguished himself twice in military affairs—first in 1819 when he captured a number of Burmese bandits in his department, and again in 1821 when he assisted the provincial authorities to put down a rebellion in the subprefecture of Yung-pei. For the latter exploit he was decorated with the peacock feather, and late in 1821 was promoted to be prefect of T'ai-p'ing-fu in Anhwei. Thereafter he rose rapidly through the offices of intendant of the Chi-Ning Circuit (冀寧道) in Shansi (1822–23), provincial judge of Chekiang (1823–24), and financial commissioner of Chekiang (1824–25). In 1825 he was made governor of Shensi, was then transferred to Shantung and, after being allowed a hundred days to mourn for the death of his father, was appointed acting governor of Yunnan. From 1827 to 1835 he served as full governor of Yunnan, and from 1835 to 1839 as governor-general of Yunnan and Kweichow. In 1838 he was concurrently elevated to Associate Grand Secretary, retaining his post in Yunnan; and later in the same year he was decorated with the double-eyed peacock feather for quickly subduing a rebellion of the aborigines on the Szechwan-Kweichow border.

Early in 1840 I-li-pu was transferred to Nanking as governor-general of Kiangsu, Kiangsi and Anhwei. At this time the First Anglo-Chinese War had been going on for a year (see under ) and was spreading northward. On July 5, 1840 the city of Tinghai, Chekiang, on the island of Chusan, was lost to 387