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'''Su Shi''' (蘇軾) ([[1037]]-[[1101]]), conosciuto anche come '''Su Dongpo''' (蘇東坡) fu uno dei più famosi [[poeta|poeti]] della [[Dinastia Song]]. Il suo nome di corte era ''Zizhan'' (子瞻).
[[Image:Su shi-calligraphy.jpg|frame|[[Calligraphy]] by Su Shi]]
== Biografia ==
Su Shi era nato a [[Meishan]], vicino alla [[Monte Emei]],[[Sichuan]]. Anche suo fratello [[Su Che]] (蘇轍) e suo padre [[Su Xun]] (蘇洵) erano famosissimi [[intelletuali]]. Nel [[1057]], lui e suo fratello superarono gli esami municipali per il servizio civile e ottennero il titolo ''[[jinshi]]''.
he and his brother passed the municipal (highest-level) [[civil service examination]]s to attain the degree of ''[[jinshi]]'', a prerequisite for high government office at that time. Throughout the next twenty years, he held a variety of government positions throughout [[China]]; most notably in [[Hangzhou]], where he was responsible for constructing a pedestrian causeway across the [[West Lake]] that still bears his name: ''sudi'' (蘇堤).
He was often at odds with a political faction headed by [[Wang Anshi]]. This faction's rise to power eventually resulted in Su Shi being [[exile]]d twice to remote places; first ([[1080]]-[[1084]]) to [[Huangzhou]] (now in [[Hubei]] province), and the second time ([[1094]]-[[1100]]) to [[Huizhou]] (now in [[Guangdong]] province) and [[Hainan]] island. The [[Dongpo Academy]] in Hainan was built on the site of his residence in exile. In Huangzhou, Su Shi lived at a farm called Dongpo ('Eastern Slope'), from which he took his literary pseudonym. He died in [[Changzhou]], [[Jiangsu]] province.
