The Eremitic and Extravagant:
Elegance of personality I

Guillaume Apollinaire poet and critic 

Peter Behrman de Sinéty translator

Thomas Carlyle essayist and historian

Eileen Chang novelist 

Chi Li novelist 

Chiang Ching dancer and essayist 

Tan-Ying Chou sinologist and translator

Fan Zhongyan poet and politician of the Song Dynasty

Annelise Finegan translator

Romain Graziani sinologist and translator

Han Fei thinker of the Legalist School during the Warring States

Han Yu poet, essayist and politician of the Tang Dynasty

Mingyuan Hu historian, writer and translator

Hu Shih philosopher, writer and politician 

David Hume historian and philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment

Jean Izoulet philosopher 

Jiang Yun novelist

Jean Levi sinologist and translator of Chinese classics

Liyine Levi-Wong translator

Liu Yiqing writer, statesman and patron during the Six Dynasties

Mencius philosopher during the Warring States, ‘Second Sage’ after Confucius

Gabriel Monod historian

Mu Xin painter and poet

Ouyang Xiu poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty

Qu Yuan poet and statesman during the Warring States

Isabelle Rabut sinologist and translator

Maël Renouard novelist, essayist and translator

Sophie Sa translator 

George Sand novelist and critic

Shao Baoqing sinologist and translator

Shi Zhecun novelist, essayist and translator

Song Gang translator

Cory Stockwell literary scholar, writer and translator

Su Shi poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard journalist and translator

Hippolyte Taine philosopher, historian and critic

Wei Zheng historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty

Xunzi philosopher and teacher during the Warring States

Zhang Yanyuan painter, art historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty

Stefan Zweig novelist, biographer and translator