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'Liu Xiang' (, 77-6 BCE), born 'Liu Gengsheng' (劉更生), courtesy name 'Zizheng' (子政), was a famous Confucian scholar of the Han Dynasty. He was born in Xuzhou and related to Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty. His son, Liu Xin, developed the "Triple Concordance" astronomical system.
Liu compiled the first catalogue of the imperial library and was the first editor of the ''Shan Hai Jing''. He was a prodigious collector of old stories, which he compiled into the ''Zhan Guo Ce'', the ''Xinxu'' (新序, "New Prefaces"), the ''Shuoyuan'' (說苑, "Garden of Stories"), the ''Lienü Zhuan'', and probably the ''Liexian Zhuan''.

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★ Fei, Zhengang, "Liu Xiang". ''Encyclopedia of China'' (Philosophy Edition), 1st ed.