Xu Xianqing | |
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 Xu Xianqing wearing common official uniform | |
| Vice-Minister of Rites | |
| In office 1587-1588 | |
| Monarch | Wanli Emperor |
| Vice-Minister of Personnel | |
| In office 1588-1589 | |
| Monarch | Wanli Emperor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1537 Suzhou |
| Died | 1602 (aged 65) Jiaxing |
| Xu Xianqing | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 徐顯卿 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 徐显卿 | ||||||||
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Xu Xianqing (simplified Chinese: 徐显卿; traditional Chinese: 徐顯卿; 1537–1602), courtesy name Gongwang (公望), pseudonym Jian'an (檢庵), was a Chinese statesman in the late Ming dynasty during the reigns of the Longqing and Wanli emperors.
Xianqing's literary work gained him much fame during his lifetime. His poems and essays are later collected and edited into the "Tianyuanlou Ji"(天遠樓集).