Cao Buxing

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Cao Buxing (simplified Chinese: 曹不兴; traditional Chinese: 曹不興; pinyin: Cáo Bùxìng; Wade-Giles: Ts'ao Pu-hsing) was a famed Chinese painter in Wu Dynasty in Three Kingdoms period who lived in Wuxing (吳興, now Zhejiang Province). His name is sometimes given as Cao Fuxing (曹弗興)^[1]. His birth and death years are unknown. He excelled in painting dragons, tigers and human figures.

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• Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6
• Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会）. Ci hai （辞海）. Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she （上海辞书出版社）, 1979.