No, this is not me; rather this is the person I wrote my thesis on. His name is Wu Weiye and he lived between 1609 and 1672. For the most part, he was a typical scholar-official: he studied for the civil service exminations in his youth, earned the highest degree of the examination ladder in his early twenties, and was a civil servant for most of his life. He engaged in typical literati pursuits such as classical learning, poetry, calligraphy, and painting, but also was interested in drama and wrote three plays which won him acclaim from his peers.