wên jênn.
Chinese men of letters.
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1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vii. 509 From early Ming times until quite recently, the history of Chinese painting has been written by that highly articulate but alarmingly unanimous body of people, the wên jên or literati.
1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 232/2 Though wên-jên, many of them were also professional painters.
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