Late Ming writer who founded the 复社, a society of thousands of scholars opposed to the eunuch faction at court. Students read his 五人墓碑记, on five Suzhou men killed for defying the eunuch 魏忠贤.
Zhōngxué kèběn lǐ shōulù le Zhāng Pǔ de 《 Wǔ Rén Mùbēi Jì 》.
Junior-high textbooks include Zhang Pu's 'Inscription on the Tomb of Five Men'.
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As a boy he copied out every book he studied, read the copy aloud, burned it and copied it again, six or seven times over. So he named his study 七录斋, 'Studio of Seven Copyings'.