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Chinese writer and poet
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Shahe Liu
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Liu Shahe (Chinese: 流沙河; born 1931 in Chengdu) is the pen name of the Chinese writer and poet Yu Xuntan (Chinese: 余勛坦).
Liu Shahe is an outspoken critic of the simplification of Chinese characters. He writes a dedicated column entitled "Simplified Characters are Unreasonable" (简化字不讲理) on the Chinese edition of the Financial Times.