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Beijing, China

Ma Zhiyuan (simplified Chinese: 马致远; traditional Chinese: 馬致遠; pinyin: Mă Zhìyuăn, c. 1250–1321), courtesy name Dongli (東籬), was a Chinese poet and celebrated playwright, a native of Dadu (大都, present-day Beijing) during the Yuan Dynasty.

Among his achievements is the development and popularizing of the sanqu (散曲) lyric type of Classical Chinese poetry forms. The poem "Autumn Thoughts" (秋思, Qiūsī) from the book '东篱乐府' is the most widely known of his sanqu poems.

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